page_title: Soft diet
section_title: Desserts
hierarchical_section_title: Soft diet / Examples / Desserts
caption_attribution_description: Caramel-Pear Ice Cream
context_page_description: A mechanical soft diet or edentulous diet or soft food diet is a diet that involves only foods that are physically soft, with the goal of reducing or eliminating the need to chew the food. It is recommended for people who have difficulty chewing food, including people with some types of dysphagia, the loss of many or all teeth, pain from recently adjusted dental braces, or surgery involving the jaw, mouth, or gastrointestinal tract.
  A mechanical soft diet can include many or most foods if they are mashed, puréed, chopped very small, combined with sauce or gravy, or softened in liquid.
  In some situations, there are additional restrictions. For example, patients who need to avoid acid reflux, such as those recovering from esophageal surgery for achalasia, are also instructed to stay away from foods that can aggravate reflux, which include alcohol, caffeine, chocolate, citrus fruits, ketchup and other tomato products, mint, and spicy foods. Foods such as blackberries and tomatoes may be restricted because they contain small seeds.
context_section_description: Cake softened with milk or ice cream
  Cheesecake
  Cream pies
  Custard
  Fruit smoothies with crushed ice, milk, soy milk, or yogurt
  Gelatin desserts such as Jell-O
  Milkshakes and health shakes
  Mousse
  Soft pies, such as Key Lime pie, Pumpkin pie, and sweet potato pie
  Pudding
  Smooth frozen desserts such as frozen yogurt, ice cream, Italian ice, popsicles, and sherbet
  Whipped cream or whipped topping
caption: Ice cream - with no chunks of chocolate, no whole nuts or nut bits, nor other hard ingredients - can be part of a soft diet.
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