Department of Clinical Nutrition, General Hospital Korgialenio Benakio, 11526 Athens, Greece.
Department of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics, University of the Peloponnese, 24100 Kalamata, Greece.
Nutrients. 2022 Aug 10;14(16):3267. doi: 10.3390/nu14163267.
Malnutrition is a prevalent issue in hospitals, nursing homes and the community setting. Nutritional products can be used by dietitians to supplement people's diet by adding energy, macronutrients and other constituents. The aim of the present work was (i) to create a database of nutritional products with information on their energy and macronutrient content, (ii) to estimate the food exchanges of each product and assist in diet plan development for malnourished persons and (iii) to provide a tool for calculation of food exchanges of newly developed products not included in the database. We searched the web for nutritional supplements, and an electronic database with 461 products was generated with data regarding the contained energy and macronutrients of each entry. The following companies were included: Abbott Nutrition, Nestle Nutrition, Nutricia North America, Nutricia Global, Nutricia Europe & Middle East, Axcan Pharma Inc., Kate Farms, Global Health, High Protein, NutriMedical BV, Hormel Health Labs, Hormel Health Labs/Diamond Crystal Brands, Lyons Magnus, Mead Johnson, Medical Nutrition USA Inc., Medtrition, Nutritional Designs Inc., Nutrisens, Humana (Germany), and Vitaflo USA. The created database facilitates product comparisons and categorization into several groups according to energy and protein content. In addition, a tool was created to determine food exchanges for each supplement per serving and/or food exchanges for newly developed products by simply inserting their macronutrient content. The developed tool can facilitate dietitians in comparing products and incorporating them into diet plans, if needed. Such tools may thus serve clinical practice, may be used in dietary or other smart applications and can familiarize dietitians with the digital epoch.
营养不良是医院、养老院和社区环境中普遍存在的问题。营养师可以使用营养产品来补充人们的饮食，增加能量、宏量营养素和其他成分。本工作的目的是：(i)创建一个包含营养产品信息的数据库，包括其能量和宏量营养素含量；(ii)估计每种产品的食物交换量，帮助制定营养不良者的饮食计划；(iii)为未包含在数据库中的新开发产品的食物交换量计算提供工具。我们在网上搜索营养补充剂，生成了一个包含 461 种产品的电子数据库，其中包含每个条目所含能量和宏量营养素的数据。以下公司被包括在内：雅培营养、雀巢营养、纽迪希亚北美、纽迪希亚全球、纽迪希亚欧洲和中东、阿克桑制药公司、凯特农场、全球健康、高蛋白、NutriMedical BV、霍梅尔健康实验室、霍梅尔健康实验室/钻石水晶品牌、莱昂斯马格努斯、美赞臣、医疗营养美国公司、美特瑞、营养设计公司、Nutrisens、Humana（德国）和 Vitaflo USA。创建的数据库便于产品比较，并根据能量和蛋白质含量将产品分类为几个组。此外，还创建了一个工具，用于确定每种补充剂每份的食物交换量和新开发产品的食物交换量，只需插入其宏量营养素含量。开发的工具可以帮助营养师比较产品，并在需要时将其纳入饮食计划。因此，这些工具可以为临床实践服务，可以在饮食或其他智能应用中使用，并使营养师熟悉数字时代。
