An elemental diet is a diet that proposes the ingestion or in more severe cases, use of a gastric feeding tube or intravenous feeding of liquid nutrients in an easily assimilated form.
including only a few foods for two to three weeks and then gradually reintroducing other foods, one at a time
using an elemental diet - a special formula in which all the protein is broken down into amino acids (the 'building blocks' of protein) ...
 See also: Amino Acid, Protein, Nutrients, Diet
  
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