Malnutrition and weight loss occurs when the body is not getting enough of the nutrients and vitamins it needs to stay healthy and it can develop if a person stops eating properly, cannot eat at all, or if the body needs more nutrients than normal (e.g. due to infection or disease).

Patients can overcome malnutrition and involentary weight loss or maintaining nutrients by consulting a nutritionist to determine the level of malnutrition. There are various way to overcome weightloss. These include nutritional food with additional nutrients, adding snacks to increase nutritional or energy intake, adding extra calories to food.

Oral nutritional supplements (ONS) such as Fortisip can be a simple way to obtain extra nutrition. In some cases, additional or full nutrition may be given via a feeding tube.

Water, maltodextrin, cow's milk proteins, sugar, vegetable oils (rapeseed oil, sunflower oil), potass...citrate, emulsifier (soy lecithin), flavouring (vanilla), magnesium chloride, tri calcium phosphate, acidity regulator (citric acid), choline chloride, carotenoids ((contains soy) (b-carotene, lutein, lycopene)), calcium hydroxide, sodium L-ascorbate, potass...hydroxide, ferrous lactate, zinc sulphate, colour (curcumin), magnesium hydroxide, nicotinamide, retinyl acetate, copper gluconate, DL-a-tocopheryl acetate, sodium selenite, manganese sulphate, calcium D-pantothenate, chromium chloride, D-biotin, cholecalciferol, thiamin hydrochloride, pteroylmonoglutamic acid, pyridoxine hydrochloride, cyanocobalamin, sodium molybdate, riboflavin, potass...iod..., sodium fluoride, phytomenadione.

(For all flavours please see individual packaging due to slight variations between flavours)