The nutritional therapy with enteral diets has had a major development in the past few years. The aim of this work is to study the effect of the enteral diet formulations components such as fiber, calcium, and medium-chain triglycerides, seeking in order to optimize a formulation for iron, magnesium, and zinc dialysability using the Response Surface Methodology. According to the result, the best enteral diet formulation optimized based on mineral dialysability was the one containing 32,5% of TCM, 32,5% of fiber, and 35% of calcium. It proved the best enteral diet formulation for the availability of iron, magnesium, and zinc.
minerals; availability; formulations of nutrients
