NUTRITIONAL ACCEPTABILITY OF A DEHYDRATED DIET
Abstract
Precooked, dehydrated and bite size compressed foods were arranged into a nutritionally balanced four-day cycle experimental menu with four meals per day. A control menu composed of frozen, fresh and heat processed foods was prepared to match the experimental diet. The control and experimental diets were prepared and/or reconstituted with room temperature water and both diets were served at room temperature to four healthy college students for 20 days while they were confined to an experimental metabolic facility. A difference in the organoleptic quality of the experimental and control diets could not be ascertained in the duration of this study. No evidence of monotony was revealed in either diet during the 20-day feeding trial. Both diets were highly digestible when fed to human volunteers. Subjects fed the control or experimental diet were maintained in nitrogen and energy balance. The subjects did not notice an increased gas production on either the control or experimental diet nor did they encounter gastrointestinal distress at any time.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1965
- Accession Number
- AD0617009
Entities
People
- D. Wiltsie Dunco
- E. W. Speckmann
- G. M. Homer
- J. E. Vanderveen
- K. J. Smith