Description of a puree diet:
- Usually eaten with a spoon
- Cannot be drunk from a cup or sucked through a straw
- Does not require chewing
- Can be piped, layered or moulded
- Shows some very slow movement under gravity but cannot be poured
- Falls off a spoon in a single spoonful when tilted and continues to hold shape on a plate
- No lumps
- Not sticky
- Liquid must not separate from solid