Hi there ~ Kiny I was wondering if you had tried the EN non flavored ones that can not be flavored? And how you manage to get 7 -8 down a day? By non flavored I also mean unsweetened.
Thank you
Trying to understand what you mean.
I have tried:
-028 (the powder, not the drinks)
-modulen
I learned about both from the hospital, since they both are used worldwide in hospitals for IBD patients.
All EN is "sweet", all EN is full of dried glucose ("sugar" if you want), unlike what the media tries to tell people, most of your calories need to be coming from carbs.
All carbs get eventually turned into "blood glucose", complex, simple, fructose, sucrose, dextrose...they all end up as blood glucose. So EN use dried glucose to make it easy on your intestine to take it up, they use simple carbs so you don't need to break it down anymore.
So use a straw so you don't kill your teeth with it. It's just as sugary as drinking coca cola etc.
Same with protein, they use highly bioavailable whey that is highly processed so you have a really easy time digesting it.
Same with fat, they use medium chain triglycerides.
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There are things you can add to Modulen to give it a "taste"...there is flavors like chocolate / vanilla etc.
I don't think 028 has them
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I use them non-flavored usually, it tastes bland, but just like an addict doesn't long for alcohol anymore if you deprive the person long enough from it, so do people who try EN no longer long for very strong flavors anymore, you sort of accept it and remember that it is helping you. The fact it doesn't have much flavor easily wins when you're not feeling as sick. Who cares right.
If I want a flavor with the EN, I simply pour it in something that already has taste, some iced tea, some juice or whatever.
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How to get enough down in a day? It's not that hard once you're doing it. Also, while I don't tend to use it with "real food", you can use EN and real food together, you will still get the benefit of real food and the benefit of the transforming growth factor in the EN and the highly bioavalable nutrients.
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Mind you, EN is not a form of treatment if you are really sick. You use it together with medication or if your disease is really mild, on it's own, or after remission to maintain remission.
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Also, if you're new to EN, you need to mix it in the right ratio, the right ratio water / EN, a child can do it, but some people forget to do this and add too much or too little water, it will be marked on the EN pamflet how much water for how many "scoops" (in the case of modulen) or mg (in the case of 028) per liter (or whatever unit your country uses).
