Ensure Plus Commence Milkshake Starter Pack (10 X 200ml)

Nutrition Facts - Ensure Plus Milkshake Style (All Flavours)

Ensure Plus Milkshake Style is a 1.5 kcal/ml complete, balanced nutritional supplement drink available in 10 different flavours. This starter pack allows patients to sample all available flavours to find their preferred option. It is suitable as a nutritional supplement or as a sole source of nutrition for patients who cannot or will not eat sufficient quantities of everyday food and drink to meet their nutritional requirements.

Macronutrients

Vitamins & Minerals

Other Nutrient Information

Ingredients

Ensure Plus Milkshake Style is a complete, balanced nutritional supplement drink containing water, maltodextrin, hydrolysed corn starch, milk protein, sucrose, vegetable oils, and essential vitamins and minerals.

Water, maltodextrin, hydrolysed corn starch, milk protein, sucrose, vegetable oils (canola, corn), minerals (sodium citrate, potassium citrate, magnesium phosphate dibasic, calcium phosphate tribasic, potassium phosphate dibasic, ferrous sulphate, zinc sulphate, manganese sulphate, copper sulphate, sodium molybdate, potassium iodide, chromium chloride, sodium selenate), soy protein isolate, flavourings, emulsifier: soy lecithin, choline chloride, vitamins (C, E, niacinamide, calcium pantothenate, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B6, vitamin A palmitate, beta carotene, folic acid, vitamin K1, biotin, vitamin D3, vitamin B12).

Allergy Advice

Contains: Milk, Soy

Gluten-free: ✓

Clinically lactose-free: ✓

Milk-free: ✗ (Contains milk protein)

Suitable for vegetarians: ✓

Suitable for vegan diet: ✗

Suitable for Halal diet: ✓

Suitable for Kosher diet: ✓ (except fruits of the forest, peach & strawberry flavours)

Important Warnings & Precautions

Contra-Indications

For Enteral Use Only. Not for use in galactosaemia. Suitable for people with diabetes provided that routine glucose checks are performed.

Storage & Directions for Use

Storage Instructions

• Store unopened at room temperature
• Ready for use - open immediately prior to use
• Shake well before use
• Best served chilled unless bolus feeding is indicated, in which case the product should be administered at room temperature
• May also be served as warm drinks - do not boil
• Once opened, unused product should be resealed and stored in a refrigerator
• Unused contents should be discarded after 24 hours

Directions for Use

Ensure Plus Milkshake Style is ready to use. Simply shake well and open immediately prior to use. Can be consumed as a milkshake-style nutritional supplement or as a sole source of nutrition for patients who cannot or will not eat sufficient quantities of everyday food and drink to meet their nutritional requirements.

Starter Pack Information

Format: Ready-to-Drink Milkshake Starter Pack | Bottle Size: 200ml per bottle | Total Bottles: 10 (one of each flavour) | Energy Density: 1.5 kcal/ml | Calories per Bottle: 300 kcal

Flavours Included

• Banana
• Chocolate
• Coffee
• Fruit of the Forest
• Neutral
• Peach
• Strawberry
• Vanilla

Uses

Food for Special Medical Purposes. Suitable under medical supervision. Suitable as a nutritional supplement or as a sole source of nutrition for patients who cannot or will not eat sufficient quantities of everyday food and drink to meet their nutritional requirements.

Community Use - Prescriptions

Can be prescribed on a FPio (GPio in Scotland) for the following indications:

• Disease-related malnutrition
• Total gastrectomy
• Short bowel syndrome
• Bowel fistulae
• Intractable malabsorption
• Pre-operative preparation of patients who are malnourished
• Proven inflammatory bowel disease
• CAPD
• Haemodialysis
• Dysphagia

All prescriptions should be endorsed ACBS (Advisory Committee on Borderline Substances).

Nutritional Completeness

Nutritionally complete for vitamins and minerals in 1000ml (excluding electrolytes, calculated using the UK Reference Nutrient Intake for men aged 19-50 years).

Special Features

Starter Pack Benefit: This pack allows patients to sample all 10 available flavours to identify their preferred option before committing to a full supply of a single flavour.

Neutral & Vanilla Attachment: Ensure Plus neutral and vanilla flavour bottles will attach to all Abbott giving sets.

Dietary Restrictions: Fruits of the forest, peach and strawberry flavours are not suitable for Kosher diet.