Pureed Bread Products
Care instructions
You may need a pureed diet if you have trouble chewing or swallowing. Some people with swallowing problems can only eat bread products (like bread, buns, biscuits, muffins, pancakes, or waffles) if they are pureed. Your dietitian or swallowing team will talk to you about pureed bread products if this might help you. Pureed bread products are moist, smooth, and have the texture of pudding.
How can you care for yourself at home?
Choose pureed bread products such as:
- cooked cereals like oatmeal
- pureed bread, buns, toast, biscuits, loaves, muffins, or polenta
- pureed French toast, pancakes, or waffles
- crackers, muffins, pancakes, or waffles covered in a slurry mix. A slurry mix is made of commercial thickener and liquid. This is used to help soften food to the right texture.
Avoid foods that have hard food pieces like seeds, nuts, chocolate chips, or dried fruit.
Make foods safe to eat
Use a mini chopper, blender, or food processor to puree bread products.
Add small pieces of bread products and liquid, and blend until smooth. You can use liquids such as broth, gravy, juice, melted butter or soft margarine, milk, sauce or water.
If a pureed food is too thick, add extra liquid 1 Tbsp (15 mL) at a time.
If a pureed food is too thin, add more of the food being pureed, or add breadcrumbs, mashed potato flakes, infant cereal, or a commercial thickener. Puree your food again after adding any of the above.
You can also cover bread products with a slurry mix to make them the right texture.
To see this information online and learn more, visit MyHealth.Alberta.ca/health/aftercareinformation/pages/conditions.aspx?hwid=custom.ab_pureed_bread_inst.
For 24/7 nurse advice and general health information call Health Link at 811.
Current as of: May 08, 2025
Author: Nutrition Services, Alberta Health Services
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