The fortified drink to help with your nutritional needs.

Ensure drink is a fortified supplement that gives you a boost of calories and nutrients. It’s useful for you if you need to gain weight or are struggling with food.
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Ensure is a brand of drinks aimed at increasing your calorie and nutrient intake. It’s often used to help people who are at risk of malnutrition, or are currently under-nourished. It’s particularly helpful for making sure that older people are able to get as much nutrition as they need on a daily basis.
This means that alongside being a typically calorie-rich drink, it’s formulated to be fortified with vitamins and nutrients in order to make it a safe meal replacement on a short-term basis.
Because it provides you with both a good amount of calories and a range of vitamins and nutrients, it means that a ‘serving’ of Ensure drink should provide you with all the same benefits that you should get from a meal.
This means that it can work to maintain your weight if you’re unable to eat for whatever reason, or you can use it to help you to gain weight if you drink it alongside your regular diet.
Because of this, clinicians often ‘prescribe’ drinks like Ensure to people who are either suffering from or at risk of suffering from malnutrition due to other health factors. Malnourishment can often be a concern for the elderly as they might struggle to eat or retain nutrition for physiological reasons, such as cancer or digestive issues, or psychological reasons such as dementia or depression.
Ensure has two different types of product: Nutrivigor and Max Protein. They’re both pretty similar, but Ensure Max Protein contains more, well, protein. This basically just means that Ensure Max Protein can be more useful for you if you’re looking to gain more muscle - as protein is an essential component for helping to build more muscle mass.
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The process for using Ensure drinks is pretty simple. Just combine six level scoops of the powder (the scoop will be provided) with 195 ml of cold water and stir it until all of the powder is dissolved.
If you’re using Ensure to try to combat malnutrition, then it can take a few weeks for your health to start improving. But it’ll typically depend on your condition, how much you’re using it and what else you’re eating.
You should always follow the advice of a clinician when you’re using meal replacements like ensure for long periods of time. Ideally, Ensure should be used alongside a healthy diet - rather than replace it.
If you use the wrong amounts of powder or water in your drink then it shouldn’t be too much of an issue. If you have any concerns that you’ve used Ensure incorrectly then you should contact your clinician for advice.
How we source info.
When we present you with stats, data, opinion or a consensus, we’ll tell you where this came from. And we’ll only present data as clinically reliable if it’s come from a reputable source, such as a state or government-funded health body, a peer-reviewed medical journal, or a recognised analytics or data body. Read more in our editorial policy.
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Malnutrition in the elderly and its relationship with other geriatric syndromes. Clinical Nutrition, pp.745–748.
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