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A Mealtime Approach to Tube Feeding
100% Real Food Meals
No Corn Syrup
No Preservatives
No Gluten
No Dairy
No Nuts
6 Meal Varieties for Kids and Adults
Covered by Many Insurance Plans
Complete Nutritional Data
Access complete nutritional data for all six of our meals, including ingredient lists, caloric distribution, and water content. Available in Cronometer.
Why Real Food?
A growing number of studies and articles support blended diets for people with feeding tubes, finding enteral patients show marked improvement after incorporating real food into their diets. This page will be updated continually as new studies are released.
Learn More
Learn more about the misconceptions of “nutritionally complete,” volume intolerance, transitioning off of overnight feeds, tips for transitioning from formula, and more.
Administering Our Meals
Our meals were designed for bolus feeding, but can also be used with feeding pumps and gravity bags. Learn how to administer our meals here.
Helpful Downloads
Access our printable materials for dietitians and medical professionals, including a resource booklet with meal plans, an article about nutritional variety, and a recipe book to add even more nutritional variety to your patients’ diets.
Free CEU
Sign up to attend our next live webinar date or to receive a recording of one of our two webinars about the benefits of including real food in your enteral patients’ diets and about enteral patients and the microbiome. Includes a free CEU credit!
Insurance Coverage
Many insurance plans cover our meals under HCPCS B4149. Get more info about insurance coverage, including our searchable database of DMEs who carry our meals.
Reviews
“He’s smiling so big because Real Food Blends works for him! He can tolerate 11 oz in an hour, a big improvement over 5 oz over 2 hrs! Gaining weight and seems so healthy!” – Ashley R.
“This is a big reason why I love Real Food Blends – I can now proactively recommend a blended diet that is just as easy to use as formula, that are typically covered by insurance, and that consists of a wide variety of real foods.” – Alissa Rumsey, MS, RD, CDN, CSCS.
