1, the soft formula for the elderly is mushroom tofu.

2. Old people eat soft recipes of rotten cabbage.

3. Lycium barbarum rabbit liver soup, a soft formula for the elderly.

4. Old people eat soft formula of double beans, Smilax glabra and lean pork soup.

With the increase of age, the tissues of the body will shrink and decline. After the age of 80, the tissue will shrink by 50%, followed by the decline of skeletal muscle and strength. The same is true of the body tissues of the oral cavity. Therefore, some old people will feel "unable to chew" and try to prepare soft and rotten meals for themselves. But the diet of the elderly is not as soft as possible.

Soft food is easy to chew and digest, but long-term consumption will further reduce the chewing ability of the elderly, leading to gingival atrophy, decreased saliva secretion function, decreased digestive enzyme secretion, and even severe malnutrition, seriously affecting health and quality of life.

Extended data:

Chewing is one of the most basic physiological activities of human body. Chewing can regulate cerebral blood flow, and when chewing hard objects or chewing speed is accelerated, cerebral blood flow increases obviously. Studies have shown that the cerebral blood flow of the elderly with teeth is 30% higher than that of the elderly without teeth. There are more cases of cerebrovascular dementia in the toothless elderly, while the memory of the elderly with intact teeth is only decreased. In other words, less chewing will affect memory function.

In addition, chewing frequently and chewing slowly is conducive to the full absorption of nutrients, and can also exercise facial muscles, delay facial muscle sagging, and make people look younger.

Therefore, the elderly should strive to maintain oral health and properly strengthen chewing training. In daily life, the elderly can "practice their teeth" in the following ways.

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The softer the food for the elderly, the better-People's Health Network