ENTERIC NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENT

摘要

It is intended to provide a novel system whereby an enteric nutritional supplement or a thickened liquid food can be solidified so that it can be easily administered within a short period of time without liquefying in the body to thereby lighten a care-giver's burden in tube feeding such as gastrostomic feeding. As the results of studies, it is found out that such a nutritional supplement or a thickened liquid food can be quickly thickened or solidified at a temperature of 40°C or below by using a starch adhesive, which contains as the main component sodium iota-carrageenan, sodium kappa-carrageenan, sodium lambda-carrageenan or a mixture thereof, without melting the starch adhesive by heating. Further, it is confirmed that the product is almost free from water liberation when administered from a syringe. That is, use of the above-described carrageenan as a starch adhesive (a semi-solidifying agent) makes it possible to produce the desired semi-solidified enteric nutritional supplement as described above.