Composición y etiquetado nutricional en suplementos alimenticios para adultos mayores que se comercializan en Ecuador.

Abstract

The deficient nutrition of the elderly is due to the inadequate intake of the necessary nutrients to satisfy their nutritional needs, this deepens to the selfmedication that they carry out without going to a health professional and/or nutritionist. This project offers a comparison of the components of nutritional supplements for the elderly for the knowledge of professionals and patients, for which a table was made with some of the supplements on the market with all their values, noting that there are maximum of three supplements for diabetics and one for pre-dialysis. The non-existence of options for patients with food allergies was determined, in addition to complete nutrition formulas, but not for specific pathologies, making it necessary to review the components of each supplement, in addition to the intervention of laboratories to provide adequate supplements to an affordable cost benefiting the nutrition of the elderly.