Otsuka Pharmaceutical Factory launches "ENOSOLID Semi Solid for Enteral Use"

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Factory, Inc. (Head Office: Naruto, Tokushima, Japan; President and Representative Director: Shuichi Takagi; hereinafter, "Otsuka Pharmaceutical Factory") will launch "ENOSOLID^® Semi Solid for Enteral Use" today.

This product is a semi-solid enteric nutrition formula which appropriately contains major nutrients, vitamins and trace elements based on the typical Japanese nutrition intake pattern (as of 2020). It is directed at nutrition management of patients who require less maintenance energy. Nutrition administration of 900 kcal supplies roughly the recommended or targeted volume of vitamins and trace elements to be taken per day. This product contains L-carnitine^*1, which is involved in fatty acid metabolism and inulin^*2 as dietary fiber.

Solid diets are generally thought to take longer to move from the stomach compared to liquid diets and are less likely to cause reflux to the esophagus^*3. This has increased and accelerated the administration of semi-solid nutrition via gastric fistula in recent years^*4. In response to this trend, we have launched RACOL-NF^® Semi Solid for Enteral Use (hereinafter, "RACOL Semi Solid") in 2014, the first semi-solid enteral nutrition formula available as a prescription drug. With 1,600 kcal nutrition, this product was designed to provide patients with close to the recommended or targeted volume of vitamins and trace elements required per day. Recently, there have been demands in the clinical environment for another product of nutrition management for patients who require less management energy.

Otsuka Pharmaceutical Factory continue to provide information and products useful for appropriate nutrition management, aiming to be the best partner for patients and healthcare professionals in the field of clinical nutrition.

Based on the corporate philosophy of "Otsuka-people creating new products for better health worldwide," the Otsuka Group is dedicated to contributing to the health of people around the world.

*1 L-carnitine: A micronutrient which plays an important role in production of energy from fat.
*2 Water-soluble dietary fiber contained abundantly in onion, burdock root, etc. and widely used as sweetener and food additive.
*3 Yamamoto, S., et al.: JSPEN, 2019; 1(3): 134-9
*4 Meitoku, A., et al.: Pharmacy Pharmacology, 2022; 14(1): 8-14

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