Nutritional drinks are taken by adults and children who cannot take in all of the calories they need each day from food alone. However, it is important to remember that nutritional drinks are usually used to add to your daily dietary intake, not replace it.
You or your child may not be able to take in enough calories from food alone for several reasons:
- Illness or injury may mean that you need more calories, protein, vitamins and minerals.
- Some people suffer from loss of appetite, have difficulty in eating or have problems swallowing.
Abbott Nutrition's nutritional drinks give you or your child a balanced amount of calories, protein, vitamins and minerals to address daily nutritional needs. As we all have different tastes and different food requirements, our nutritional drinks come in a wide range of styles and flavours.
We have drinks in our range designed for adults, older and younger children.
For adults and older childrenFor adults and older children, Abbott Nutrition's range of nutritional drinks includes:
- Ensure Plus, milkshake, yoghurt and savoury styles.
- Ensure Plus juce (formerly Enlive Plus), a refreshing juice style drink
- Ensure Plus fibre, a milkshake-style drink, with added fibre
- Enshake, a high-calorie shake drink which is mixed with milk for even more calories.
For younger childrenChildren have different nutritional needs to adults, and our children's range is designed specifically to meet their needs for calories, protein, vitamins and minerals.
Nutritional drinks are taken by children who cannot take in all of the calories they need each day from food alone. However, it is important to remember that nutritional drinks are usually used to add to a child's daily dietary intake, not replace it.
The Paediasure range is designed specifically for younger children (weighing 8-30kg) and is available as standard and higher calorie variants, both with and without fibre. Most of our paediatric products come in a range of flavours. Our paediatric products are:
- Paediasure, milkshake style
- Paediasure Fibre, milkshake style with fibre
- Paediasure Plus, higher calorie milkshake style
- Paediasure Plus Fibre, higher calorie milkshake style with fibre
Starter PacksA great way of starting on our range of nutritional drinks is to try the different flavours. You can then see which flavours and styles you prefer. This is easy to do by using one of our starter packs. The starter packs need to be prescribed for you by your healthcare professional.
Enmix Plus Commence (mixed-style prescription starter pack)
Ensure Plus Commence (milkshake-style prescription starter pack)
The starter packs each have ten bottles in a range of flavours, and include a "patient choice" card so that you can note down the ones you like. When you have tried the drinks in your pack, take your patient choice card to your GP who can then prescribe you the flavours and styles that you prefer for as long as you need them.
Further ideas for recipes using these drinks can be downloaded from our
recipe bank. If you have an idea for a recipe you have tried and liked, please
send it to usTipMost of our nutritional drinks are best served chilled and can also be used in
recipes; chocolate and coffee flavours are also great served warm.
Since the Abbott Nutrition range is so wide, you can have different nutritional drinks, depending on you or your child’s dietary needs and tastes. However, our nutritional drinks should only be taken after you have discussed your needs with your healthcare professional. They are medical foods and are available on prescription for people who need them.