Transitional Diet

How to order the diet: Diet order entered as Transitional. Description: This diet is designed to be used after colorectal and other types of surgeries, and indicated in patients who have nausea or are just beginning to take an oral diet after a prolonged period NPO, prior to advancing to regular diet. It consists of patient and research-reported tolerable foods and beverages after surgery and is more nutritionally adequate than the traditionally used clear liquid diet. Once the patient demonstrates tolerance to this diet, their diet can be advanced to a regular diet or another therapeutic diet based on the patients clinical condition. Nutritional Adequacy: See attached summary. The Transitional Diet nutritional adequacy varies significantly based on the items selected by patients. The nutrient content can be inadequate to meet DRIs but this diet is meant to be used for a short period of time. Sample Menu: Breakfast Low Cholesterol Scrambled Eggs Toast (white) Yogurt Jello Promise Margarine Spread Jelly Coffee or hot tea Sugar and Creamer

Lunch Chicken noodle soup Grilled cheese sandwich on white bread Saltines Banana or fresh fruit cup Jello Iced tea Sugar

Dinner Chicken salad sandwich on white bread Potatoes Canned fruit Vanilla wafers Yogurt

Food Group Beverages

Cereals, Breads and Grains

Vegetables

Fruit and Juices

Foods Allowed All: Juice, milk, soda, coffee, tea (hot or iced); oral nutrition supplements as ordered by LIP Soft breads, toast, crackers Muffins Cooked or dry cereals Cooked vegetables S Vegetable juices Most soups Potatoes Fruit Juices Applesauce Fresh Fruits: banana, melon, peaches, pears, oranges Canned peaches, pears, apricots, pineapple, fruit cocktail, citrus sections

Foods Excluded None

Pancakes, Pasta, noodles, rice, Moist bread dressing, biscuits

Dried fruit

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Milk Cottage Cheese Cheese Milk Yogurt Meat, fish, or egg salads Eggs Peanut butter None

Meats and Meat Substitutes

Fats

Desserts

Tender meat, fish, or poultry Chopped or ground meats, poultry Tough fibrous meats (e.g., sausage casings) All except those to avoid Fats with coarse, difficulttochew, or chunky additives Graham crackers, vanilla wafers N Desserts containing nuts, coarse Popsicles, gelatin, pudding dried fruit, or tough fruit Yogurt Cake, tender cookies Ice cream, sherbet, Deserts baked to a hard custard consistency All C None

Condiments

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RDA/DRI, Females, 31 - 50 y, sedentary Daily Average for Week 1 % RDA/DRI Average for Week 1 KCAL 1800 1890.3 105% FAT (g) 66.6 CHO (g) 130 233.2 179% CHOL 199.7 PRO (g) 46 90.5 197% DFIB (g) 25 10.7 43% Na (mg) 1500 3050.2 203% K (mg) 4700 2077.7 44% Ca (mg) 1000 1551.5 155% Fe (mg) 18 9 50% Vit A 700 520.5+ 74+% Vit C (mg) 75 97.9 131%

SatFAT (g) RDA/DRI, Females, 31 - 50 y, sedentary Daily Average for Week 1 % RDA/DRI Average for Week 1 24.6 -

MUFA (g) 19.9 -

PUFA (g) 16.3 -

TransFAT 0.8+ -

Sugar (g) 107.7+ -

ALC (g) 0+ -

bio (g) 30 0+ 0+%

Cr (g) 25 0+ 0+%

Water (g) 2700 1495.7+ 55+%

ASH (g) 15.8+ -

F (g) 3000 719+ 24+% Vit A (RE) 687.1+ -

FOL (g) 400 346.6+ 87+%

Mg (mg) RDA/DRI, Females, 31 - 50 y, sedentary Daily Average for Week 1 % RDA/DRI Average for Week 1 320 190.9+ 60+%

Mo (g) 45 0+ 0+%

P (mg) 700 1330.6 190%

Cu (mg) 0.9 0.7+ 82+%

Zn (mg) 8 7.9+ 99+% Vit E (mg) 15 6.1+ 41+%

Cl (g) 2.3 0+ 0+% Vit B1 (mg) 1.1 1.2+ 111+%

Choline 425 200.4+ 47+% Vit B2 (mg) 1.1 2.5+ 227+%

Se (g) 55 127.4+ 232+%

I (g) 150 0+ 0+% Vit B6 (mg) 1.3 1.2+ 94+%

Mn (mg) 1.8 3.8+ 209+%

Vit A (IU) 4142.1 -

RETOL RDA/DRI, Females, 31 - 50 y, sedentary Daily Average for Week 1 % RDA/DRI Average for Week 1 242.7+ -

CARTA 447.7+ -

CARTB 1305.4+ -

Vit D (IU) 600 320.3+ 53+%

NIA (mg) 14 18.9+ 135+%

Vit B12 2.4 3.2+ 132+%

Vit K (g) 90 38.4+ 43+%

Folic Acid 125.7+ -

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