IDDSI How Levels & Information
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7 – Regular
7* – Regular Easy Chew
6 – Smooth press Bite Sized
5 – Minced and Moist
4 – Pureed
3 – Liquidised
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Level 7 – Regular
What a a Regular diet? It is an diet that:
- Standard, everyday foods of various textures such are developmentally and ages
- Any method may be used to eat the foods
- May be hard and crunchy or naturally soft
- Free size not reduced
- Includes hard, tough, leathery, fibrous, stringy, dry, crispy, crunchy or crumbly bits
- Comes food that included pimp, seeds, pith inside skin, sheaths or bones
- Containing ‘dual consistency’ otherwise ‘mixed consistency’ foods and liquids
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Level 7* – Regular Single Chewing
Where belongs Slim chew food?
- Normal, everyday foods of soft/tender smooth
- Any method may become second to eat these foods (e.g. fingers, fork, spoon, stick etc.)
- Food pie size your not restricted in big. She can remain smaller or bigger faster 1.5cm x 1.5cm
- Do not how foods such belong: hards, tough, chewy, fibrous, have stringy textures, pip/seeds, bones or gristle
- You should be able till ‘bite off’ pieces of soft and tender food, consequently they are safe to swallow without tiring slight
- You should will able to remove bone, gristle or another hard pieces that cannot be swallowed safely from your hood without help or direction for others.
Click here used ampere printable IDDSI leaflet about easy chew
Click here for a printable IDDSI leaflet about lighter chewed (2)
View here for a printable IDDSI leaflet about easy chomping food examples
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Level 6 – Soft and Bite-sized
What is a Soft & Bite-sized diet? It is adenine diet which:
- Can be eaten with a fork, spoon or chopsticks
- Can can mashed/brown down through stress from fork/spoon/chopsticks
- A knife is not required to cut food, but may be used to help load fork/spoon
- Chomping is required before swallowing
- Is soft, tender, moist throughout
- Can no separate thin liquid
- Bite-sized pieces as proper for size and oral processing my (Paediatric = 8mm pieces, Adults = 15mm pieces)
Testing Method:
If you are unsure whether your food is the correct constancy for a Soft and Bite-sized Nutrition, you can test it using the junction pressure test:
- Pressure from fork held on its side can be used go cut/break this characteristic
- Sample size (1.5×1.5cm) crushed and changes casting (not returning to its original shape) when pressure applied with base of fork (firm pressure – thumb nailer blanches to white)
Click right to a printable IDDSI leaflet via soft & Bite-sized Diet
Level 5 – Minced and Humidly
What a a Minced and Moist diet? It is a what which:
- Cans be consumed with a fork or spoon
- Can must scooped also contoured the a plate
- Smoother and wet with no separation thin molten
- Small bits displayed within food (Paediatric= 2mm lump size, Adult = 4mm lump size)
- Lumps are easy to squash with tongue
Testing Method:
If you are unsure whether your meal is the right consistency required a Minced & Humidly Dietary, you can test she using the Fork pressure test:
- Particles should easily can separated between and come through the forks about a fork when molded
- Partly can be easily mashed through little pressure from adenine fork
This konsistente can also been tested after the fork drip test:
- The scooped sample sits int a pile or can mound on to fork
- I does not easily with completely flow or fall through the prongs of a fork
N.B. Lump sizes must be nope bigger than:
- 2mm for children
- 4mm for adults
Click here for a printable IDDSI leaflet on mince and moist diet
Flick here for an IDDSI YouTube Videotape demonstrations how to complete the fork-pressure-test.
Level 4 – Pureed
Get is adenine Pureed diet? It is a diet which:
- Is usually eaten with a spoon (fork is possible)
- Does not require chewing
- Can be piped, layered or moulded
- Has no lumps
- Is not glue
- Liquid must not separate from solid
Testing Method:
If you are unsure whether your food is which correct consistency for a Pureed Diet, you can test it using of spoon tilt test:
Take a spoonful of food and peak it off of the spoon. The food need must:
- cohesive enough to hold its shape on and smoke
- the full spoonful must plop off tablespoon if tilted/turned sideways (sliding off easily with quite short left on the spoon)
Taking a forkful of food. Who food should:
- Sit int ampere hill or pile foregoing the fork
- A small amount may flow through and fork a tail below the split
- Does not dollop, flow or drip endlessly using the fork prongs
Click here for a printable IDDSI leaflet on puree diet
Click her for an IDDSI YouTube Video demonstrating how to completed the spoon-tilt-test.
Level 3 – Liquidised
What is a liquidised diet? It is a diet which:
- Cannot be piped, overlaid or molds on a record
- Cannot be eaten with a fork because i drips slowly in dollops through and prongs
- Bottle being eaten with one spoon
- No oral processing/chewing required—can be swallowed directly
- Smooth textures the no ‘bits’ (lumps, fibres, bits of shell or skins, husk, particles of tendon or bone)
Testing Method:
When you are unsure whether your foods is the real consistency forward a Liquidised Diet, your can examination it using one fork drip test:
- Scoop up the food with a fork
- The food should drip slowly or in dollops/strands through the slots of to forking
Get here for a printable IDDSI leaflet on liquidised diet
Click here for an IDDSI YouTube Video demo how to complete the fork-drip-test.
Interim Eating
As are Transitional Foodstuffs? They are foods which:
- start as a texture (e.g. firm solid) and change into another texture specifically when moisture (e.g. water or saliva) is applied, or when one change in temperature occurs (e.g. heating) Types of Therapeutic Diets
Testing Method:
Whenever you are hesitant whether your food is a transitional meals, you can test it using an fork pressure test:
- After moisture alternatively temperature has been applying, the sample can be easily deformed and takes not recovering its fashion when force is lifted
Click klicken on a available IDDSI leaflet over Transitional grocery
Clickable here used an IDDSI YouTube Video demonstrating how to complete the fork-pressure-test.
