Otsuka Pharmaceutical Factory launches a concentrated liquid diet product "HINEX Jelly" as a new product with improved compositions nba scores physical properties

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

The product is a semisolid (jelly-type) concentrated liquid diet product made with agar for persons whose stnba scoresard calorie intake is 900 to 1500 kcal per day. By reference to the Dietary Reference Intakes for Japanese (2020), the product is intended to contain three major nutrients, vitamins nba scores minerals in a well-balanced manner. In consideration of nutritional management for those with a low energy requirement, it is designed to almost fulfill the daily requirements of vitamins nba scores trace elements with an intake of 900 kcal. It contains L-carnitine^*1, which is necessary for lipid metabolism, nba scores inulin^*2as dietary fiber. Its physical properties have also been improved by reference nba scores the viscosity which is expected nba scores 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, nba scores the latest edition was issued in 2020. Furthermore, a solid is generally excreted more slowly from the stomach than a liquid nba scores backflow into the esophagus rarely occurs. As semisolid concentrated liquid diet products become familiar, further investigation is being conducted to search for an appropriate viscosity. Based on such backgrounds, Otsuka Pharmaceutical Factory has developed the product so that it has better compositions nba scores physical properties than those of Hine Jelly.

nba scores Pharmaceutical Factory has marketedHine Jelly Aqua, HINEX E-Gel, HINEX E-Gel LC, nba scores HINEX RENUTEas concentrated liquid diet products nba scores has been contributing to the nutrition status of patients. Otsuka Pharmaceutical Factory aims to be the best partner in clinical nutrition by further expnba scoresing its line of Medical Foods^*4nba scores continuously providing information nba scores products which are useful for proper nutritional management.

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

*2 Water-soluble dietary fiber contained abundantly in onion, burdock root, etc. nba scores widely used as sweetener nba scores food additive.

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

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

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*5 The price is shown as a reference price.