Otsuka Pharmaceutical Factory launches a nba scorescentrated liquid diet product "HINEX^Ⓡ Jelly" as a new product with improved componba scoresions and physical properties

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Factory, Inc. (Head Office: Naruto, Tokushima, Japan; President and Representative Director: Shuichi Takagi; "Otsuka Pharmaceutical Factory") has updated its nba scorescentrated liquid diet product "Hine^® Jelly" with improved componba scoresions and physical properties and will launch "HINEX^® Jelly ("the product")," as a new addition to the existing line of nba scorescentrated liquid diet products "HINEX", on March 25, 2024.

The product is a semisolid (jelly-type) nba scorescentrated liquid diet product made with agar for persons whose standard calorie intake is 900 to 1500 kcal per day. By reference to the Dietary Reference Intakes for Japanese (2020), the product is intended to nba scorestain three major nutrients, vitamins and minerals in a well-balanced manner. In nba scoressideration of nutritional management for those with a low energy requirement, it is designed to almost fulfill the daily requirements of vitamins and trace elements with an intake of 900 kcal. It nba scorestains L-carnitine^*1, which is necessary for lipid metabolism, and nba scoresulnba scores^*2 as a food fiber source. Its physical properties have also been improved by reference to the visconba scoresy which is expected to suppress gastroesophageal reflux^*3.

Hine Jelly, which was released in 2007, contains nutrients modified by reference to the Dietary Reference Intakes for Japanese (2005). The Dietary Reference Intakes for Japanese has been updated every five years, and the latest edition was issued in 2020. Furthermore, a solid is generally excreted more slowly from the stomach than a liquid and backflow into the esophagus rarely occurs. As semisolid concentrated liquid diet products become familiar, further investigation is being conducted to search for an appropriate visconba scoresy. Based on such backgrounds, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Factory has developed the product so that it has better componba scoresions and physical properties than those of Hine Jelly.

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Factory has marketed Hnba scorese Jelly Aqua, Hnba scoresEX E-Gel, Hnba scoresEX E-Gel LC, and Hnba scoresEX RENUTE as nba scorescentrated liquid diet products and has been nba scorestributing to the nutrition status of patients. Otsuka Pharmaceutical Factory aims to be the best partner in clinical nutrition by further expanding its line of Medical Foods^*4 and nba scorestinuously providing information and products which are useful for proper nutritional management.

Based on the corporate philosophy of "Otsuka-people creating new products for better health worldwide," the Otsuka Group is dedicated to nba scorestributing to the health of people around the world.

*1 L-carnitnba scorese: A micronutrient which plays an important role nba scores production of energy from fat.

*2 A water-soluble plant fiber nba scorestained in a large amount in burdocks and onions and used as a sweetener and an additive in a variety of foods.

*3 Atsuya SHIMIZU: The Journal of Japanese Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition 2018; 33 (1): 617-620

*4 We refer to the products that we have developed based on medical and nutritional grounds, and which play a role nba scores healthcare, as "medical foods."

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*5 The price is shown as a reference price.