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- LIQUID
- 6 YEARS +
- 12.8 / 125ml
- 300 / 125ml
- 36 / 125ml
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Ensure Compact Strawberry 125ml is a ready-to-drink, high-calorie nutritional supplement designed for adults and children aged 6 years and over who struggle to consume enough nutrition through conventional foods. Each compact bottle delivers 300 kcal and 12.8 g of protein, all in a small 125 ml serving, making it ideal for those with poor appetite, fluid restriction or difficulty drinking larger volumes.
This energy-dense nutrition drink provides a balanced mix of protein, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals in a convenient strawberry-flavoured format. It’s nutritionally complete for use as a dietary supplement or under medical supervision as a Food for Special Medical Purposes.
Key Features & Benefits
Compact, High-Energy Nutrition
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300 kcal per 125 ml bottle — perfect for those needing calorie-rich nutrition in a low-volume drink format.
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12.8 g protein per serving helps support muscle maintenance and recovery.
Complete Vitamin & Mineral Support
Packed with essential nutrients to help meet daily requirements, including:
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Vitamin A, C, D3, E & B-complex vitamins
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Calcium, Iron, Zinc, Magnesium and Potassium — important for immune function, energy metabolism and overall health.
Convenient Ready-to-Drink Formula
The drink is ready to consume straight from the bottle — no mixing or preparation needed. Best served chilled, though it can also be warmed gently without boiling to preserve its nutrient integrity.
Dietary Suitability
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Lactose-free and gluten-free
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Suitable for vegetarian, Halal and Kosher diets (varies by flavour).
How to Use
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Ready to drink — shake well and enjoy straight from the bottle.
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Serve chilled or at room temperature.
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Once opened, cover and refrigerate, and use within 24 hours.
Note: Use under medical guidance if intended as a sole source of nutrition.
Who Can Benefit Most?
This strawberry nutritional supplement drink is widely recommended for:
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Individuals with poor appetite
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Those with fluid tolerance issues
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People needing additional calories & protein
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Post-surgery or recovery care nutrition
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Oral supplementation under health professional supervision
Ensure Plus Compact Special Offers Include:
Ensure Compact Banana (12 PACK)
Ensure Compact Cafe Latte (12 PACK)
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USES
Food for Special Medical Purposes, for use under medical supervision. Suitable as a nutritional supplement or sole source of nutrition for patients who cannot or will not eat sufficient quantities of everyday food and drink to meet their nutritional needs.
Nutritionally complete for vitamins and minerals in 625 ml, excluding sodium, potassium, chloride and magnesium. When excluding sodium, potassium and chloride only, Ensure Compact is nutritionally complete for vitamins and minerals in 1500ml.
Note: nutritionally complete volumes are calculated using the UK Reference Nutrient Intake for men aged 19-50 years.
COMMUNITY USE—PRESCRIPTIONS
Can be prescribed on a FP10 (GP10 in Scotland) as a sole source of nutrition or as a nutritional supplement for the dietary management of patients with, or at risk of developing, disease-related malnutrition.
All prescriptions should be endorsed ACBS (Advisory Committee on Borderline Substances).
Product Name | Suitable for Kosher diets | Suitable for Halal diets | Suitable for vegetarians | Clinically lactose-free | Gluten-free |
Ensure Compact | √ | √ | √ | X | √ |
STORAGE & DIRECTION OF USE
- • Store unopened at room temperature.
• Ready for use. Open immediately prior to use.
• Shake well before use.
• Best served chilled unless bolus feeding is indicated, in which case the product should be administered at room temperature.
• May also be served as warm drinks. Do not boil.
• Once opened, cover, refrigerate and discard unused feed after 24 hours.
• Ensure Compact bottles will attach to all Abbott giving sets
PRECAUTIONS
- • Monitor fluid intake to ensure adequate hydration status.
• In patients receiving some medications there may be a risk of drug nutrient interactions (e.g. warfarin and vitamin K). Careful prescribing and monitoring practices will serve to reduce the risk (please refer to pharmacist).
• Patients should not make any additions to the feed without consulting their pharmacist or dietitian.
• Many nutritional products contain sucrose and other sugars. It is important for patients who are taking supplements as sip feeds to observe good oral hygiene. It is suggested that patients consult with their dentist for further advice.
• Unless recommended by a healthcare professional, not intended for use in children.
CONTRA-INDICATIONS
- • FOR ENTERAL USE ONLY.
• Not for use in galactosaemia.
• Suitable for people with diabetes provided that routine glucose checks are performed.
FAQ's:@@:
When should I consider using Ensure Compact?
Ensure Plus is suitable for individuals who find is difficult to consume solid foods or do not feel like eating, a likely after-effect of illness or surgery. However, it is at this point that your body needs good nutrition and Ensure Plus is a healthy source of vitamins, minerals and calories for patients who require a liquid nutritional supplement. Ensure Plus can be purchased without a prescription, although NutriDrinks would recommend visiting a GP before purchase if you are unsure. Individuals who can benefit the most from Ensure Plus are those suffering from illnesses, recovering from surgery, individuals with a weakened immune system or those experiencing undesired weight loss.
Why you need a nutritious supplement like Ensure Compact?
In general, healthy men require approximately 2500 calories each day to
maintain their body weight, with women requiring approximately 2000.
Food intake can decline for a variety of reasons, such as poor appetite, swallowing problems and side effects of medicines. As a result of being unwell or having a reduced appetite, you may be struggling to eat enough to meet your full nutritional requirements. This is why you may have been recommended to take an oral nutritional supplement.
Oral nutritional supplements contain energy, protein, vitamins and minerals that you would normally get from a full healthy diet to help you cope better with
your illness and recover quicker.
They can be useful short term if your appetite is poor and you can't manage to take in enough nourishment. You can use them to replace a meal or to boost your calorie intake between meals. Oral nutritional supplement may provide, maintain, or improve nutritional status in patients with or at risk for malnutrition and involuntary weight look.
Why is Ensure Compact popular?
Ensure Plus is popular for a number of reasons including it being nutritionally balanced, ready to drink, great tasting and the fact in contains 50% more calories than other supplement drinks. This is important as some conditions can increase the body’s need for energy and Ensure Plus can safely promote weight gain, particularly when taken as part of a balanced diet. Furthermore, Ensure Plus is available in a variety of flavours and styles.
Does Ensure Compact contain all the necessary vitamins and minerals?
Ensure Plus can provide your body with ‘balanced’ nutrition. It is nutritionally complete and contains essential and non-essential vitamins and minerals. Ensure Plus can therefore be used as a sole source of nutrition (if prescribed) or as part of a balanced diet. Ensure Plus is ideal for those at nutritional risk who may require a high calorie balanced nutritional drink supplement.
Can Ensure Compact help me gain weight?
Ensure Plus is high in protein and provides 330 calories per bottle of Ensure Plus. This milkshake style supplement drink can be used by patients who struggle to gain weight as part of a balanced diet. Any type of food or liquid which contains calories can help individual gain weight. Ensure Plus drink supplement is an easy way to introduce more calories in to your diet and help gain weight as each Ensure Plus contains 330 calories.
Can Ensure Compact help me lose weight?
Ensure Plus can be used as a meal replacement supplement in the short term and also as a maintenance product to help maintain and/or lose weight. If Ensure Plus is being used for weight loss then total daily caloric intake should always be considered as ultimately the number of calories consumed plays a determining factor in weight gain and weight loss. Ensure Plus milkshake can keep individuals feeling fuller for longer, especially if they have a reduced appetite.
Why is Ensure Compact high in protein?
Ensure Plus is high in protein to aid in tissue maintenance and repair. As a prescribed weight gain supplement drink for individuals who are recovering from surgery and or illnesses , protein is vital in strengthening the recovery process and helping tissue repair.
Does Ensure Compact contain fibre, lactose or gluten?
Ensure Plus milkshake does not contain fibre, lactose or gluten and is suitable for individuals who may have an allergic reaction to either.
Ensure Plus Fibre contains added fibre for patients requiring additional fibre.
Does Ensure Compact taste nice?
Ensure Plus has recently been reformulated to taste even better then before ! The NutriDrinks team are happy to report that all flavours have been tried and tested by the team and we are happy to drink them as part of a balanced diet. Ensure Plus is delicious in flavour and filling in nature. The perfect supplement drink for those who require a few extra calories or patients who find it difficult to digest solids. Thumbs up from NutriDrinks!
Is Ensure Compact easy to prepare?
Ensure Plus is a ready to drink milkshake style drink which requires no preparation, just open the lid , peel back the foil and enjoy!
What Alternatives are there to Ensure Plus by Abbott Nutrition?
Ensure Plus Milkshake is the most popular of the Abbott Nutrition drink supplements. However, there is a range of delicious supplements which might be more beneficial depending on an individuals requirements. These include:
Ensure Plus Yoghurt
Ensure Plus Yoghurt is based on the same formulation of Ensure Plus Milkshake, being high in energy, protein, calories and nutritionally complete. This unique yoghurt style texture is tasty and available in Orange Burst, Pineapple Twist and Strawberry Swirl direct from NutriDrinks.co.uk
Ensure Plus Fibre
Ensure Plus Fibre contains 320 calories per 200ml and is enriched in fibre and prebiotics making it ideal to maintain normal bowel function. Available in a range of flavours from NutriDrinks.co.uk
Ensure Plus Juce
Ensure Plus Juce is a fat free version of Ensure Plus Milkshake , ideal for patients who require a low fat diet or have difficulties in absorbing fat based products. Ensure Plus Juce is high in calories and is nutritionally balanced. Available in a range of flavours from NutriDrinks.co.uk
Ensure Plus Savoury
Ensure Plus Savoury contains 375 calories per 240ml can, a suitable supplement drink for individuals requiring a savoury option. Ensure Plus can is also fibre free, ideal for individuals unable to tolerate dietary fibre. Available in chicken and mushroom flavours, direct from NutriDrinks.co.uk
Ensure Plus Creme
Ensure Plus Creme is a pudding containing 175 calories per pot. Frequently used as a texture alternative or as a snack for individuals with a poor appetite, Ensure Plus Creme can be used as part of a balanced diet. Available in a range of flavours from NutriDrinks.co.uk
Ensure TwoCal
Ensure TwoCal is rich is calories, containing 400 calories per 200ml serving making it more calorie rich than Ensure Plus. Ensure TwoCal is suitable for patients who have an increased need for calories. Available in a range of flvaours from NutriDrinks.co.uk
Ensure
Ensure is the entry level product for the range and contains a minimum of 250 calories per 250ml can. Ensure is a ready to drink supplement , rich in vitamins and minerals containing no dietary fibre. Available in a range of three flavours from NutriDrinks.co.uk
Enshake
Enshake is extraordinarily rich in calories providing 600 calories per powdered sachet, making Enshake the highest caloric product in the Ensure range. Enshake is gluten and fibre free but rich in protein and fat. Enshake has a rich and creamy texture when mixed with milk or cream and is available from NutriDrinks.co.uk in a range of flavours.
Nutritional Content:@@:
NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION UNIT | PER 100ml | PER BOTTLE (125ml) |
Energy kJ | 1008 | 1261 |
kcal | 240 | 300 |
Protein (nitrogen) g | 10.2 (1.63) | 12.8 (2.05) |
Carbohydrate g | 28.8 | 36 |
of which sugars g | 6.2 | 7.8 |
Fat g | 9.35 | 11.7 |
of which saturates g | 0.8 | 1 |
Fibre g | 0 | 0 |
VITAMINS UNIT | PER 100ml | PER BOTTLE (125ml) |
Vitamin A (RE) μg | 155 | 194 |
Vitamin D3 μg | 3 | 3.8 |
Vitamin E mg | 4.7 | 5.9 |
Vitamin K1 μg | 21 | 26 |
Vitamin C mg | 21 | 26 |
Folacin (folic acid) μg | 48 | 60 |
Thiamin (vitamin B1) mg | 0.35 | 0.44 |
Riboflavin (vitamin B2) mg | 0.47 | 0.59 |
Vitamin B6 mg | 0.47 | 0.59 |
Vitamin B12 μg | 0.97 | 1.2 |
Niacin mg | 4.4 | 5.5 |
Pantothenic acid mg | 1.5 | 1.9 |
Biotin μg | 7.5 | 9.4 |
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MINERALS UNIT | PER 100ml | PER BOTTLE (125ml) |
Sodium mg (mmol) | 145 (6.31) | 181 (7.89) |
Potassium mg (mmol) | 215 (5.5) | 269 (6.88) |
Magnesium mg (mmol) | 20 (0.82) | 25 (1.03) |
Phosphate mg (mmol) | 170 (5.49) | 213 (6.86) |
Calcium mg (mmol) | 170 (4.24) | 213 (5.3) |
Chloride mg (mmol) | 145 (4.09) | 181 (5.11) |
Iron mg | 3.4 | 4.3 |
Zinc mg | 2.9 | 3.6 |
Manganese mg | 0.6 | 0.75 |
Copper mg | 0.32 | 0.40 |
Iodine μg | 38.4 | 48 |
Selenium μg | 12 | 15 |
Chromium μg | 10 | 13 |
Molybdenum μg | 20 | 25 |
Choline mg | 97 | 121 |
Osmolality mOsm/kg H2O |
| 1052 |
Osmolarity mOsm/litre |
| 676 |
Water ml/100ml (ml/bottle) |
| 64.3 (80.4) |
Water, hydrolysed corn starch, milk proteins, vegetable oils (canola, high oleic sunflower, corn), sucrose, minerals (potassium chloride, calcium citrate, magnesium phosphate dibasic, ferrous sulphate, potassium citrate, zinc sulphate, manganese sulphate, cupric sulphate, potassium iodide, sodium molybdate, chromium chloride, sodium selenate), emulsifier: soy lecithin, flavouring, acidity regulator: E525, choline chloride, vitamins (C, E, niacinamide, calcium pantothenate, B6, B1, B2, vitamin A palmitate, folic acid, K1, biotin, D3, B12), stabilisers (E460, E466).
Note: All information based on vanilla flavour. Some minor differences exist between flavours.
Summary of Key Ingredients & Their Benefits
High-Energy Support
For individuals with low appetite, recovery needs or malnutrition risk, Ensure Compact’s high calorie density offers targeted nourishment without large fluid volumes.
Protein-Rich Formula
Protein is essential for maintaining muscle mass, supporting immune response and aiding recovery from illness or surgery. Its easily digestible form is suitable for those with compromised appetite.
Vitamin & Mineral Balance
The comprehensive micronutrient profile helps support:
Bone health (Calcium, Vitamin D3)
Immune defence (Vitamin C, Zinc)
Energy metabolism (B-vitamins)
Such a balance is crucial in clinical nutrition and everyday dietary supplementation.
Manufacturer Name : Abbott Nutrition
Manufacturer Address : Abbott House, Vanwall Business Park, Vanwall Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 4XE
Manufacturer Email : [email protected]
Manufacturer Phone Number : 01628 774620
