Clear Liquid Diet is based on liquids, just like the name suggests. The main liquids are broth, plain gelatin, water and juice. The diet helps in digesting food to the fullest. The diet should be continued for few days because it cannot provide enough nutrition to the human body regularly.
Purpose
Clear Liquid Diet is used before surgeries, procedures and tests that require stomach and intestine to remain food free such as colonoscopy. It is a short term diet used to recover from digestive problems such as vomiting, nausea and diarrhea.
More Information on Clear Liquid Diet
The diet helps you maintain adequate level of hydration, provides essential electrolytes and generates energy at the time when normal diet cannot be consumed.
Here is a list of the foods allowed in Clear Liquid Diet.
- Ice Pops without fruit bits or pulp
- Water
- Fruit Punch
- Strained Lemonade
- Fruit Juices excluding pulp such as cranberry juice, apple juice and grape juice
- Clear sodas
- Honey
- Plain Gelatin
- Fat free broth
- Coffee without cream and milk
- Tea without cream and milk
All the foods that do not belong to the above list must be avoided. Here is a sample menu for your daily diet.
Breakfast
- 1 cup tea or coffee without dairy products
- 1 bowl of gelatin
- 1 glass fruit juice
- 1 cup of broth
Snack
- 1 glass of fruit juice
- 1 bowl of gelatin
Lunch
- 1 glass of water
- 1 bowl of gelatin
- 1 glass of fruit juice
- 1 cup of broth
Snack
- 1 ice pop
- 1 glass soft drink
Dinner
- 1 cup juice
- 1 glass water
- 1 bowl of gelatin
- 1 cup of broth
- 1 cup tea or coffee
The diet may not seem exciting. However, it is designed in a way to keep your intestine and stomach clear. The diet also removes all the toxins and impurities from your body. You may also lose weight during the diet time period. Your body will stay hydrated for the entire diet time span.