Abstract
Up to now, there have been various attempts regarding the form of supplementary food meals for children (persons) with severe motor and intellectual disabilities (SMID) and eating or swallowing disorders. Among staple foods in paste form (paste food), full-rice porridge prepared with a blender (blender full-rice porridge) is thick sticky, easily separates from water, and is difficult to eat. Thus, for many years, only bread porridge has been provided. On the other hand, regarding the fact that there is no choice but to provide blender full-rice porridge to patients who do not like bread porridge, it has been reported that some families wish to provide rice based meals, and an improved menu which includes staple food other than bread porridge has been requested. Consequently, a safe method to provide rice based food as paste food was considered, and including an enzyme for blender full-rice porridge (enzyme porridge) was tested. For such inclusion, a survey on provided sample foods and eating conditions of the patients was carried out with the cooperation of caregivers, etc., and taste experienced for the first time and the amount accepted were confirmed. As a result, enzyme porridge was well accepted, and adopting a rice based food menu has become possible. Furthermore, attempts to improve potato based food, which is also thick sticky and difficult to eat, using the same enzyme was also carried out.
