Everybody is different. Your healthcare professional can give advice on how many oral nutritional supplements you need to take each day and which types might be best for you. Prescriptions are often between 1 and 3 oral nutritional supplements a day.
Oral nutritional supplements will help improve your dietary intake. It is important that you take the recommended number/dose each day but if you have trouble managing the amount recommended do let your healthcare professional know.
In general, people take oral nutritional supplements when they most feel like drinking or eating them. This could be between meals, like a snack, first thing in the morning or before bed time. Others find that taking small amounts of their supplements regularly throughout the day helps. Oral nutritional supplements can also be included in some of your favourite recipes too (see section on next page).
Most oral nutritional supplements (drinks and desserts) taste best cold. Soup and savoury styles are better warm.
You should shake nutrition drinks well before opening.
You can drink most oral nutritional supplements straight from the bottle using a straw if provided or you can pour it into a glass or cup.
As our tastes differ there are many different types of oral nutritional supplements available.
Oral nutritional supplements are available in the style of milkshakes, juices, yogurts, desserts and soups.
There are different sizes of oral nutritional supplements to suit different appetites.
There are lots of flavours available to try so you don’t have to just pick one. Starter variety packs are also available. Speak to your healthcare professional about the different flavours available.
Some people may prefer to take oral nutritional supplements warm or incorporated into foods and drinks. For example, oral nutritional supplements can be gently warmed to make hot chocolate or used to enrich a variety of meals, desserts and drinks. You can replace milk in sauces, cakes, desserts and drinks with a milkshake style oral nutritional supplement. If warming pour the oral nutritional supplements into a pan or microwavable dish and warm through gently without boiling as boiling may alter the taste and damage the heat-sensitive vitamins.
Yes, place the oral nutritional supplements into a freezer safe container or ice cube tray and freeze. Juice style oral nutritional supplements freeze well, just pour into an ice cube tray or ice lolly mould and freeze. Milkshake-style oral nutritional supplements can be used to make ice cream.
Yes, place the oral nutritional supplements into a freezer safe container or ice cube tray and freeze. Juice style oral nutritional supplements freeze well, just pour into an ice cube tray or ice lolly mould and freeze. Milkshake-style oral nutritional supplements can be used to make ice cream.
