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A Mealtime Approach to Tube Feeding
No synthetic ingredients
No added sugar* or salt**
No added color or flavor
No dairy, nut, or soy ingredients
100% Real Food Meals
Covered by many insurance plans under HCPCS B4149
8 meals and 1 snack for nutritional variety
Closest to a homemade blenderized diet†
Nutritional Data
Access nutritional data for our eight Real Food Blends meals on Nutricia Learning Center. Available on Cronometer.
Letter of Medical Necessity
We created a sample letter of medical necessity for healthcare providers to request insurance coverage of Real Food Blends® for their patients. You can complete the missing information and individualize the letter to suit your patient’s situation and needs. Please note: our Nutricia Navigator team is available to help your patients explore options for coverage and offer access assistance for Real Food Blends. If your patients need personalized support with product coverage call 1-800-365-7354 or email NutriciaNavigator@nutricia.com.
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!
Reviews
“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.
Enteral Referral
Order Form
This enteral order form is intended to be completed by a healthcare professional and sent directly to a DME/home infusion supplier.
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.
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.
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.
*Not a low-calorie food
**Not a sodium-free food
†Compared to other blenderized enteral formulas
