Constipating Diet Food Selection Guide

Foods Allowed

Protein-rich Foods

For Vegetarians:

• Vegetarian products like tokwa, gluten, vegemeat, vegesausage, etc.

For Non-vegetarians

• Fish, lean meat (baked, boiled well with little or no oil)
• Hard-boiled egg

Vegetables

• Low-cellular vegetables like chayote, carrots, upo (white squash) without seeds (for mild diarrhea case only)

Fruits

• Banana, apple, star apple

Beverages

• Apple juice
• Clear strained fruit juices
• Orange juice
• Gatorade

Carbohydrates

• White bread
• Polished rice
• Noodles, pasta

Desserts

• Plain jello, plain gulaman and any dessert, preferably with no milk and fat

Foods Not Allowed

Protein-rich Foods

• Fatty meat
• Raw or half-cooked fish or meat
• Legumes and nuts

Vegetables

• Leafy vegetables

Fruits

• Papaya, pineapple, orange (with skin and pulp)

Beverages

• Prune juice
• Alcoholic beverages
• Dairy Products
• Whole milk, butter milk and milk products

Dessert

• Cakes, pastries, cookies
• Fried desserts such as turon, banana cue, camote cue

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Mechanical Soft Diet (Food Selection Guide)

Foods Allowed

Carbohydrate-rich Foods

• Soft Rice (if tolerable to patient)

• Oats

• Lugaw

• Mashed potato, mashed camote (sweet potato), mashed saba (banana)

• Soft bread

• Soft cookies

Protein-rich Foods

For Vegetarians

• Well-done legumes cooked with sabaw (soup)

• Chopped or ground vegetarian products

For Non-Vegetarians

• All well-cooked chopped, flaked or ground lean meat and fish

• Flaked fish

• Poached egg

Vegetables

• Diced string or Baguio beans

• Diced chayote (vegetable pear), carrots

• Mashed squash

• Well-cooked eggplant

Fruits

• All soft fruits

• Crispy fruits which can be scraped like apple, pear

• Any fruits, blended

Beverages

• Fruit juices, milk, fruit shakes, milk shakes

Foods Not Allowed

Carbohydrate-rich Foods

• Hard-cooked rice and cereals

• Hard crackers

Protein-rich Foods

• Litid (ligament e.g. beef)

Vegetables

• Raw or half-cooked 

Fruit

• Hard

Beverages

• Alcoholic beverages, coffee, tea and cola drinks

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Cold Liquid Diet (Food Selection Guide)

Foods Allowed

Fruits/Juices (cold or iced)

• Fresh fruit juices
• Commercial fruit juices
• Blended fresh fruits
• Fruit shake

Milk

• All chilled
• Dairy or non-dairy yogurt, chilled

Rice or Substitute

• Cold thin lugaw or cereal
• Cold thin oatmeal with creamer and sugar
• Cold thin misua soup
• Any cold thin soup

Desserts

• Plain ice cream
• Popsies
• Plain sherbet
• Cold soft custard
• Cold jello or gelatin
• Cold taho

Foods Not Allowed

• All solid, hard, and hot foods

Beverages

• All hot beverages
• Wine and alcoholic beverages
• Tea, coffee
• Strong-flavored fruit juices

Note: Homemade desserts are preferable. You may use little honey instead of sugar.

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Clear Liquid Diet (Food Selection Guide)

Foods Allowed

Desserts/Sweets

• Gelatin
• Jello

Beverages

• Salabat
• Lemon-flavored soda
• Any clear juices or strained fruit juices (synthetic fruit juices)
• Strained rice and soy coffee
• Gatorade

Soups

• Clear fat-free broth

Foods Not Allowed

Solid Foods

• All

Beverages

• Milk and milk products
• Fruit shakes

Soups

• Soup cooked with fat and cream

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Bland Diet Food Selection Guide

Foods Allowed

Protein-rich Foods:
For vegetarians

• All legumes, well-cooked

• Vegetarian meats, like tofu, gluten, vegemeat, vegesausage

For non-vegetarians

• All fish, preferably those with scales and fins

• Lean meat, preferably beef, poultry, veal

Carbohydrates:

• All cereals and grains, preferably unrefined, if tolerated

• Tubers or root crops

• Noodles, pasta

Fruits

• All

Vegetables

• All, especially dark green leafy and yellow vegetables

Fat-rich Foods

• Vegetable oil (seed and nut oils)

Beverages

• Juices (not too sour)

• Whole milk, skim milk, soymilk

Non-irritating Spices

• Basil

• Bay leaf

• Coriander

• Dill weed and seed

• Fennel seed

• Marjoram

• Mint

• Oregano

• Paprika

• Parsley

• Rosemary

• Sage

• Saffron

• Tarragon

• Thyme

• Turmeric

Foods Not Allowed

Protein-rich Foods

• None

Carbohydrates

• None

Fruits

• None

Fat-rich Foods

• Animal fat

Beverages

• Coffee, tea

• Cola drinks

• Alcoholic beverages

• Cocoa

Sweets/Desserts

• Chocolates

Use Sparingly

• All spices

• Anise

• Cinnamon

• Cumin

• Nutmeg

Irritating Spices

• Black pepper

• Chili pepper

• Cayenne

• Cloves

• Ginger

• Horse radish

• Hungarian paprika

• Mustard

Note: Know the irritating spices and substitute them with non-irritating ones.

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Balanced Diet Food Selection Guide

Foods Allowed:

Protein-rich Foods

For Vegetarians:

• All legumes, preferably with skin and membrane

• Vegetarian meats, like tokwa (tofu), gluten, vegemeat, vegesausage

• Nuts

For non-vegetarians

• All fish, preferably those with scales and fins

• Lean meat, preferably beef, poultry, veal

• Carbohydrates

• All cereals and grains, preferably unrefined

• Tubers or root crops

• Noodles, pasta

Fruits

• All, preferably fresh with skin and membrane

Vegetables

• All, preferably fresh with seed and membrane

• Dark green leafy and yellow vegetables

Fat-rich Foods

• Vegetable oil (seed and nut oils)

Beverages

• Fresh fruit juices

• Whole milk, skim milk, soymilk

Foods Not Allowed:

Protein-rich Foods

• Pork

• Shellfish

• Internal organs

Carbohydrates

• None

Fruits

• None

Vegetables

• None

Fat-rich Foods

• Animal fat

Beverages

• Coffee, tea

• Cola drinks

• Alcoholic beverages

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