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Before coming across a full liquid diet, sufficient enough to provide your body adequate nutrients, you should first get yourself introduced with its actual purpose. What warrants the people to go for full liquid diet and why is required to be looked into. Full liquid diet is meant for those who are incapable to consume variety of vital foods to be had in solid form.

Those who are operated upon any specific surgery, such as dental surgery, abdominal surgery or throat surgery are strictly restricted to eat solid foods, requiring a great effort on their part in chewing and swallowing the solid foods. Keeping in view a critical condition of the individual, only full liquid diets are recommended by the doctors in order to replenish the need of vital elements, necessary for patient’s body.

People, prescribed full liquid diet, are needed to have one cup of fruit juice, half cup of hot cereal, eggnog, milk and hot lemon tea in the morning as a breakfast. While in their lunch they should have creamed soup, one glass of juice, half glass of pudding or custard, milk and hot lemon tea.

The full liquid diet is complete food supplement, containing less iron, vitamin B12, vitamin A and thiamine. Unless situation warrants, a person should not depend upon full liquid diet. Though the liquid diet contains adequate percentage of vital elements, it should not be continued for longer period of time. People seeking to have full liquid diet foods for replenishing vital elements, required for their body, should go through the products to have been mentioned over here, categorizing them as the feasible or prescribed full liquid diet foods as well as prohibitive full liquid diet foods. 

• Milk Products- There are several indispensable food items to be served as a full liquid diet foods such as milk, milk shakes, eggnog, ice cream, custard and pudding. Being swallow-able very easily such milk products are must for all who are not allowed to eat solid foods like a common man. Patients requiring the full liquid diet foods should avoid cheese as unwanted milk product.
• Vegetables- Though all the vegetables are required to be had by people for good health, they cant be suitable for a patient, recommended only the liquid diet food items. All kinds of cooked as well as fresh vegetables are not allowed to be consumed by the patients, except vegetable juices, containing 100 % power and freshness of the vegetables as a part of full liquid diet foods.
• Fruits- As far as fresh fruits are concerned, they also are too indispensable for our health and cant be overlooked by us. But they cant be served as a full liquid diet food items in their natural disposition. Rather the fruits are served as a full liquid diet food in a form of juice or nectar only, in order to replenish the existing requirement of individual’s body.
• Breads and Grains- Contrary to a common diet of a healthy person, the full liquid diet, meant for a patient, does not contain breads and cereals. Only the cooked refined cereals such as farina, grits and oatmeal, apart from cream of rice and wheat, are counted as the most crucial part of full liquid diet food items, meant for weak patients. 
• Meat- Meat is not included in the list of full liquid diet foods.
• Butter, Cream and Oil- Though butter, margarine and cream are permitted to be consumed as a full liquid diet food, the oil is not allowed to be served even as refined oil.
• Sweets- Chocolates, ice creams, etc are not allowed to be served as feasible full liquid diet. But some specific items, containing the sweetness are included in the list of full liquid diet, such as herbal drinks or sherbet, plain gelatin, fruit ice, honey and syrups.
• Beverages- The full liquid diet foods do not offer any king of beverage to be offered to the individual.
• Soups- As far as soup is concerned, only the broth, bouillon and strained creamed soups are included in the list of full liquid diet.