Author: Hannah.Doubleday

Does your patient eat a modified diet?

Old Descriptor	New IDDSI Descriptors
Smooth Purée C Diet	Puréed Diet (Level 4)
Textured Purée D Diet	Minced and Moist Diet (Level 5)
Fork Mashable E Diet	Soft and Bite-Sized Diet (Level 6)
Soft Diet	No Equivalent—Place patient on Level 6
Normal Diet	Regular Diet (Level 7)

When carers say ‘soft diet’, they do not always mean soft. Please check whether they mean mashed or puréed instead.
Please refer your patient to SALT on iCare, if they usually have thickened fluids and/or a modified diet.