Healthy and Energetic Liquid and Semi-Liquid Diet, You Must Try

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Liquid diets are easy to absorb and easy to digest, low on calories, provides you with instant energy and comfort diet for all age groups. You can include your favourite ingredients available, all-season around to provide extra punch to your health. If you are suffering from dehydration, having liquid diets helps to balance your body’s water content and keeps you rehydrated. So make your heart, healthy and energetic diet with the below-listed options.

Semi-liquid diets are the best option to include in the diet for individuals of any age group. It is also the best option to include for the people recovering from surgery or who have gastrointestinal issues, swallowing problems and other health condition. Yes! The diet is low in fat, high in fibre, minerals, and nutrients. Semi-liquid diet can challenge your digestive system and also provides you with enough energy. Here, we have listed out a few options that you can include in liquid and semi-liquid diet category. Just read through the options and include a few choices in your daily diet!

Healthy and energetic liquid diet:

1. Fruits and vegetable juice:

Include any fruits and vegetables of your choice. Adding fruit and vegetable juice in your diet can help to keep your colon healthy and can naturally detox your body. Use farm-fresh fruits and vegetables and avoid store-bought juices as they may contain additives or chemicals. Ingesting on fruits and vegetables can lower the risk of cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. Simple fruits and veggies, which you can include, are berries, apples, melons, cucumbers, tomatoes, celery, carrots, beets etc.

2. Almond milk:

Almond milk is an excellent source of calcium. Individuals who suffer from lactose intolerance, gas, bloating, or have diarrhoea can include almond milk in their diet. It helps to keep your bones and muscles strong, protects skin, controls blood sugar, and keeps your digestive system strong and healthy. If you are lactose intolerant or suffer from calcium deficiency, then manage your levels with calcium supplements. Speak to your doctor before you take any supplements. Order your prescribed calcium tablets from any reliable online medicine site and avail amazing medicine discount on all orders you place.

3. Soups and broths:

Soups are an easy and healthy way to pop on all the nutrients, vitamins, minerals, and anti-oxidants. Some healthy soup that you can add in your diet includes vegetable soup, green gram dal soup, carrot soup, tomato soup, spinach, and dal soup etc.

Broth: Yes! Bone broth is loaded with nutrients, proteins, and collagen which ease joint pain and improve gut health. You can also prepare vegetable broth. It is loaded with minerals, vitamins, antioxidants, and helps to boost immunity.

4. Coconut, chia, and berry smoothie:

Add your favourite berries to a mixer along with coconut and chia seeds. Blend the ingredients thoroughly. This smoothie is loaded with nutrients, minerals, and fibres. Start your day by drinking this delicious smoothie!

5. Protein shakes:

Protein shakes strengthen immunity, provide healthy muscles, energize your cells, and help to lose weight, especially if you are on a weight-loss journey. Pick any of the following protein shake from the below-mentioned list. All you need to do is just to blend the ingredients together and drink it.

Maca powder, hemp seeds, coconut water, blueberries, vanilla powder, and banana
Banana, kale, almond milk, yogurt, flax-seeds, and almond butter
Almond milk, banana, hemp seeds, spinach, pumpkin seeds, vanilla protein powder and mango pieces
Yogurt, almonds, flax seeds, spinach, sesame seeds, vanilla protein powder, and a pinch of cinnamon powder
Chocolate protein powder, coconut flakes, almond milk, almond butter, and water

6. Coconut water shake:

Add coconut water and banana to any of your favourite berries or fruits of your choice and blend them together. As it is rich in electrolytes such as potassium and sodium, it is super-healthy food and a great energy drink for post-workout individuals.

Healthy and energetic semi-liquid diet:

1. Oatmeal porridge:

Oatmeal porridge is a highly nutritious food, rich in fibres, reduces bloating and helps in weight loss due to its low glycaemic index value. Cook the oats as per the instructions in the pack and add your favourite fruits, nuts, seeds, non-fat milk, and a pinch of cinnamon powder to it.

2. Ragi or finger millet porridge:

Finger millet is the most healthy and nutritious cereals for all age groups. It is rich in calcium. It controls blood glucose levels; increases haemoglobin, reduces depression, anxiety, and helps in weight loss. You can make sweet ragi porridge with milk or salted ragi porridge either with buttermilk. Add dry fruits, nuts, and fruits of your choice in the sweet ragi malt to enhance flavour and taste.

3. Mixed grain cereal porridge:

Make homemade mixed grain porridge with the following ingredients like brown rice, millet of your choice, amaranth seeds, quinoa, and wheat bran. Cook all the ingredients together with the required amount of water until it is soft. To this add kosher salt and nuts of your choice before serving it.

4. Green gram rice porridge:

Green gram is a rich source of fibre, potassium, and iron. Green gram rice porridge is a super-healthy, nutritious, and comfort food for all age group. To make this porridge, cook green gram and rice together. To this add milk or coconut milk of your choice and again cook for another 5 minutes.

Include the above-said liquid and semi-liquid diet in your daily diet. It helps to balance all your nutrients like vitamins, minerals, and fibre in your body. You can also seek advice from your dietician to framing out a balanced diet or meal chart for yourself. If you are not meeting your required nutrients through food, then for optimal health, take multivitamins or dietary supplements. Order your multivitamins from the best online pharmacy store in India at lowest price with free home delivery!

By Lakshmi Krishnanunni
who is a content writer for Zoylo Digihealth which is an online healthcare platform offering a number of healthcare services (online medicine delivery, online doctor consultation, diagnostic services etc) under one roof. I hold M.sc., M.phil in Biochemistry and I have strong proficiency in the subject areas of immunology, cell biology, and molecular biology, to name a few. I have more than 10 years of research experience in the field of medicinal plants, nanotechnology and clinical research. My expertise in the above domains has greatly assisted me in writing medical, health and research-based articles. I aim to provide research-based information in a simple and easily comprehensible way to the readers.

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