Preferences for different high-energy foods in elderly medical in-patients

J R Harper; S McAlpine; M M Hetherington; C Bolton-Smith; M E McMurdo

Preferences for different high-energy foods in elderly medical in-patients

J R Harper
, S McAlpine
, M M Hetherington
, C Bolton-Smith
, M E McMurdo

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Abstract

Malnourishment is a common finding in hospitalised elderly patients. It is often addressed by the provision of nutritional supplements, in the form of sip-feeds. Patients' intake of these is frequently inadequate. We assessed the palatability of sip-feed nutritional supplements and other high-energy foods to elderly medical in-patients. Using the Lickhert Scale, 49 subjects rated the taste of a previously selected sip-feed supplement and five other high-energy foods, cheese biscuit, plain potato crisps, chocolate, cherry-flavoured cereal bar and stout beer. Subjects rated the taste of sip-feeds as favourably as all other offered foods, with the exception of the lower rated stout beer (p = 0.0001). Taste alone is unlikely to account for the poor intake of sip-feed nutritional supplements by elderly hospital patients.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	171-172
Number of pages	2
Journal	Scottish Medical Journal
Volume	46
Issue number	6
Publication status	Published - Dec 2001

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Preferences for different high-energy foods in elderly medical in-patients

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