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. 2016 Dec 20;2016(12):CD009840. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD009840.pub2

19. Effects of modification to meals on nutritional intake.

  Outcome (N) Results P Value
Intervention Control  
Fortification of food (studies in hospital)
Barton 2000 Total energy intake (kcal/d) 36 1711 (195) 1425 (136) < 0.001
Munk 2014 Mean (SD) intake (kj/d) 81 5843 (1660) 5149 (1832)  
Mean (95% CI) difference between groups 693 (‐80 to 1466) 0.08
Fortification of food (studies in residential care homes)
Leslie 2012 mean (SEM) change in energy intake (baseline to week
12) (kcal/d)
16 133 (89) ‐36 (84) 0.154
Food fortification (studies in free‐living individuals)
Silver 2008 Total energy intake (kcal/d) 45 1876 (543) 1423 (422) < 0.001
Modifications to meal composition (studies in intermediate care)
Bouillane 2013 Change in energy intake (kcal) 63 50.9 (458) 39.2 (401) NR
Modifications to meal delivery (studies in residential care homes)
Germain 2006 Change in energy intake (kcal) 15 611 (408) 81 (169) 0.03
Taylor 2006 Total energy intake (kcal/d) 31 1342 (177) 1325 (207) 0.565
Modifications to flavour (studies in residential care homes)
Essed 2007 Change in energy intake (kcal) 83 Flavour: ‐17 (445)
Flavour + MSG: 78 (352)
MSG: ‐32 (28)
102 (452) NR
Essed 2009 Energy intake from modified meal (kcal) 53 420 (211) 424 (216) 0.896
Mathey 2001b Change in energy intake (kcal) 67 ‐50 (267) ‐115 (298) Baseline to end of intervention I: NR, C: < 0.05

C: control; I: intervention; MSG: monosodium glutamate; NR: not recorded; SD standard deviation; SEM standard error of the mean; CI confidence interval