Taiwan local nutrition Tsann-Long Hwang Department of Nutritional Therapy, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University, Department of Nutrition, Taipei Medical University*, Taipei, TAIWAN The Taiwan Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (TSPEN) qualified at least 54 hospitals in Taiwan to have good nutritional support team and patients care. The characteristic local nutritions in Taiwan include local foods and enteral nutritional diets. The Taiwanese or Chinese food is rich in full nutrition as other Asian foods. The enteral nutrition is widely used in most hospitals in the island for years, and many general hospitals or medical centers have designed their own formulas for their patients. There are several local nutritional sources or enteral formula diets developed in Taiwan, which have been used in most hospital for years. They include polymeric formula, predigested formula for the patients with short bowel syndrome, chronic pancreatitis or post gastrointestinal surgery, high fat polymeric formula for the patients with ventilator dependency and immunomodulational formula for the patients with high risk for infection. The polymeric diet contains 16% of protein, 34% of fat and 50% of carbohydrate; the high fat formula contains 45% of fat and 39% of carbohydrate and 16% of protein; the predigested formula contains 20% of peptide, 15% of fat with 50% of MCT, 65% of maltose. The immunomodulational diet is enriched with arginine, glutamine and ?-3 fatty acid. The above formulae are used as liquid nutritions for hospital diets. The local nutrition formulae are generally cheaper and more widely accepted by local hospitalized and out patients compared to the imported formulae in Taiwan. The difference of complications and outcomes among them were reported. The local nutrition in Taiwan provides multiple and better choice of enteral formulae for the hospitalized patients. From "The 7th Congress of the PENSA Abstract Book " Bali, Indonesia, August 24-26, 2001 Page : 3