Still feeling frustrated by swallowing difficulties?
Umi No Shizuku offers 2 safe and comforting dietary tips to help you swallow more easily while ensuring complete nutrition. Before we share these tips, let’s first understand the main causes of swallowing difficulties.
1. Throat inflammation, acid reflux, esophageal ulcers
2. Tumors, esophageal diverticula, foreign objects
3. Stroke, achalasia
4. Effects of aging (elderly swallowing issues, oral weakness)
5. Abnormal sensitivity of the throat
6. Difficulty in effectively chewing and swallowing food
Foods to Avoid for People with Swallowing Difficulties
Hard or Dry Foods
For individuals with poor chewing ability, hard foods are also considered difficult-to-eat foods. Eating these types of foods requires good chewing skills to break them down and mix them with saliva into a sufficiently moist food bolus for safe swallowing. Elderly individuals often experience a decline in chewing ability due to decreased muscle strength and tooth loss.
Sharp or Spiky Foods
Eating these foods requires effective chewing skills to break them down into soft, rounded, and moist pieces for safe swallowing.
Sticky and Tough Foods
Foods like meat, fish cakes, konjac, lotus root, and peanuts can be extremely difficult for elderly individuals with reduced saliva production or those with oral paralysis who cannot properly process food in their mouths. If these foods are not properly chewed into small pieces, they can scatter in the mouth, making chewing even more difficult. When swallowing, these foods may not form a cohesive bolus, making it hard to swallow and increasing the risk of aspiration (where food enters the airway instead of the esophagus).
Safe & Care Diet 1 — Design Soft, Easy-to-Swallow, Nutrient-Rich Menus
✅ Puree vegetables with chicken or fish and simmer into a thick soup for easy swallowing and rich nutrition
✅ Choose nutritious drinks like soy milk or fruit juices to provide ample calories and protein
✅ Opt for easily digestible whole grains, which are rich in vitamins and minerals
✅ Add sauces, gravies, or broths to food to increase moisture and ease swallowing
Nutritional Recipe 1: Oyster Flavored Chicken Tofu
Ingredients: 2 eggs A small amount of chopped green onions. 1 piece of winter melon. 1 piece of kombu (dried seaweed) A small amount of job’s tears A small amount of lotus seeds. 1 piece of chicken 8-10 oysters
Instructions: 1. Rinse the kombu and cook it to make a kombu broth.
2. Use the kombu broth to cook the oysters for about 20 minutes, then remove and strain them. Set aside.
3. Cut the winter melon into small pieces. Add the cleaned lotus seeds and job’s tears to the kombu broth and cook until the winter melon becomes soft and tender.
4. Chop the chicken into fine pieces and mix with egg white to form a chicken paste.
5. Spoon the chicken paste into the kombu broth.
6. Simmer for ten minutes, then add the chopped green onions to finish.
Nutritional Recipe 2: Chawanmushi (Japanese Steamed Egg)
Ingredients: 2 eggs Soy milk or chicken broth (in a 1:2 ratio with the egg mixture) 2 crab sticks 2 tablespoons of mixed beans.
Instructions: 1. Crack the eggs into a bowl and mix with soy milk or chicken broth.
2. Use a spoon or strainer to remove any bubbles from the mixture.
3. Cut the crab sticks into small pieces and distribute them evenly along with the mixed beans into two bowls. Pour the egg mixture over them.
4. Cover the bowls with plastic wrap or aluminum foil and steam over medium heat for 10 minutes to finish.
Safe & Care Diet 2: Supplementing with Nutritional Supplements
Many nutritional supplements available on the market come in tablet or capsule form, which may be less user-friendly for people with swallowing difficulties. Liquid nutritional supplements, in this regard, should be prioritized. For example, Umi No Shizuku’s fucoidan is available in a liquid form, making it easier to consume and providing more comprehensive nutrition!
Umi No Shizuku Fucoidan – Drink Type
For those who have difficulty swallowing capsules or have swallowing difficulties and wish to support their immune system with fucoidan, we recommend the liquid form of Umi No Shizuku Fucoidan. This product contains fucoidan, Brazilian mushrooms, and vitamins. Each bottle is equivalent to 10 capsules of Umi No Shizuku which tastes good and is easy to absorb. With continuous use, a small 50ml bottle can effortlessly support your immune system and help you maintain a healthy state.
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Umi No Shizuku Essential Nutrition
Umi No Shizuku Essential Nutrition is primarily composed of banafine, with added branched-chain amino acids (BCAA), calcium, zinc, selenium, and vitamins, ideal for supplementing nutrition when appetite is poor or physical strength is weakened while helping to build muscle. When taken together with Umi No Shizuku Fucoidan, the body’s ability to absorb fucoidan will be further enhanced.
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