That NanoVM seems to be a vitamin and mineral supplement for use with tube feedings that do not provide enough vitamins and minerals.
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Here is something called
Real Food Blends. Looks good,
@Howard -- if the choices fit your desired food plan.
Here is the technical data sheet on the turkey and sweet potatoes meal:
https://www.realfoodblends.com/wp-c...s-Technical-Information-Document-04.22.19.pdf
Not organic, but real food, and not formula.
Here is
a blog post with a video about the woman who started Real Food Blends. Her son has a seizure disorder, and so she developed the foods.
Excerpts from that blog page:
He didn’t always get real food through his feeding tube. When he first received his tube, we followed doctors orders to pump him full of formula. We hooked him up to his feeding pump anywhere from 6-8 times a day, and often overnight, trying to get him the amount of prescribed calories. He was miserable. Our family was miserable.
Seeking answers, I found a group of tube-fed people and caregivers that had this radical idea: Put real food through the feeding tube. It was truly a lightbulb moment.
Within days of starting to add real food to AJ’s tube feedings, his color perked up (imagine what you would look like only living off white food), he stopped vomiting daily, his reflux improved, and he started having regular bowel movements. Since that time, he now receives a whole rotation of quality proteins, whole grains, fruits, vegetables and healthy fats. Not many two year olds get beets, bison, kale, flax seed oil and quinoa on a regular basis!
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Turns out $3 billion worth of tube-feeding formula is sold annually in the U.S. – and it’s growing. Just about all of those formulas contain the same basic stuff, mostly corn syrup / corn derivatives. None of them contained 100% real food or offer nutritional variety. This is what is being prescribed to kids like AJ who have neurological issues, and people who have cancer, ALS, cerebral palsy, MS, AIDS, and the other 150+ different conditions that could make a feeding tube necessary – all conditions that deserve the best nutritional support possible. (It’s worth noting that formula is not innately bad – many people wouldn’t be alive today if it weren’t for some of these specialized formulas!)
(Note from Kelly: I disagree with that statement, I actually do think it's bad, having seen the ingredient labels, but better than starving I suppose…)
That’s when the idea for Real Food Blends for healthy tube feeding was born. 100% real food, pureed meals for people on feeding tubes in convenient shelf-stable pouches. We’re starting with 3 different meal options but hope to add more quickly to provide nutritional variety.
Feeding a real food diet is rarely suggested by those in the medical community, but almost every nutritionist and doctor that has heard we have AJ on a “blenderized diet” gives us a pat on the back, saying “It’s the best thing for him.”
(However, one young girl on a blended diet was kicked out of her lunchroom because of this ‘unsafe practice’ of putting real food into her stomach!) It’s my hope that Real Food Blends makes real food via tube the preferred option for tube feeding. After all, what would you put into your body if taste didn’t matter?
Julie Bombacino is the founder of Real Food Blends. She lives outside Chicago with her husband Tony, daughter Luca and son AJ. ...
This is Kelly again. So what about you, what would you put into your body or your kids' bodies if a tube feeding was necessary?
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Personally, I'd make my own, and use similar foods as Julie does, such as bone broth, coconut oil, and pastured meats, but also add in things like ground liver and cod liver oil and butter oil...
