Thick, cheap and easy: Fortifying texture-modified meals with infant cereal

Nutrition and Dietetics

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 112-115

  Kennewell, Suzanne ^a   Kokkinakos, Maria ^b  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b SYDNEY SOUTH WEST AREA HEALTH SERVICE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dysphagia; Fortification; Infantcereal; Iron; Malnutrition; Texture modified

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249800372     PISSN: 14466368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0080.2007.00101.x     Document Type: Article

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