Types of Diets
A diet containing only clear liquids with the consistency of water.
What is a 'liquid diet'
The name for a person who does not eat meat.
What is Vegetarian?
The best place to store perishable foods to avoid foodborne pathogens.
Where is the Refrigerator?
The most common food allergy in children (and one that is often outgrown).
What is an egg allergy?
The name for the type of feeding that a patient without the ability to eat by mouth, but with a functioning GI tract would receive.
What is tube feeding?
A meal that contains mashed potatoes and gravy would be from this type of diet.
What is a pureed diet?
The name for the muslim way for preparing meats to be eaten.
What is Halal?
The disease that one can get from improperly canned, low acid foods.
What is Botulism?
The name for the issue that someone who is not actually allergic to a food, but simply cannot tolerate large amounts of it, has.
What is a food intolerance?
The type of tube feeding where the tube is placed in through the nose, down the esophagus, and into the stomach.
What is nasogastric tube feeding?
The term used when the consistency of foods has been changed to match a patiens difficulties with ingestion or digestion.
What is a mechanically altered diet?
Two religions where pork is specifically forbidden to eat
What are Judaism and Islam?
The main type of food that has potential to cause foodborne illness from all of the most common causes of of food poisoning.
What is Meat?
The name for the food intolerance that prevents people from consuming large amounts of dairy products.
What is lactose intolerance?
The tube feeding method commonly abbreviated as PEG.
What is a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy?
There are four levels to this type of diet, used for patients with difficulty swallowing.
What is the Dysphagia diet?
The religion which reveres cows, and in which beef is not consumed.
What is Hinduism?
This common bacterium is the cause of foodborne illness from beef contaminated with fecal matter during the slaughtering process.
What is Escherichia coli (E. coli)?
The name of the disease for someone who has an allergy to gluten.
The type of a surgically placed feeding tube that enters into the jejunum of the small instestine.
What is a jejunostomy or percutaneous endoscopic jejunostomy (PEJ)?
Name for patients that can chew solid or soft foods
What is an edentulous patient?
The term for someone who does not eat meat but who eats dairy and eggs.
What is Lacto-ovo-vegetarian or ovo-lacto-vegetarian?
This is the U.S. state that has the most cases of food poisoning caused by Campylobacter.
What is Hawaii?
Someone who is allergic to this common legume would have this allergy.
What is a peanut allergy?
This type of enteric feeding formula is also called predigested or hydrolyzed and is composed of partially or fully hydrolyzed nutrients.
What is elemental formula?