12/23/2025
🕎🎄❤️Happy holidays from GNOSH, Inc!!!
As a feeding-swallowing therapist, I am always looking for naturally occurring purées, dips, and cohesive soft solid foods to work on with my clients.
Hummus can be a great spread, dip, or a moisture binding food that is nutrient dense. Hummus comes in many different flavors. My favorite flavors include lemon and chocolate that can be added to a diet or to boost flavor profile while working with children and adult adults with Dysphagia.
Flavor is your friend while you were motivating children and adults to strengthen oral motor and swallowing skills! I like using crushed graham cracker crumbs in the chocolate or crushed Ritz crackers crumbs in the lemon to add some cohesive chewable textures (moist and minced).
Whether you’re working on licking, sucking, chewing, lip closure, jaw stability or swallow activation, try scant flavors to start with and hummus.
I also use it in home entertaining! I love using chocolate hummus in place of frosting or in a trifle in place of pudding.
As with all techniques and tools for those with oral motor and swallowing disorders, a complete Dysphagia evaluation is required with a referral to a registered dietitian to determine the best diet to support optimal nutrition within skilled feeding – swallowing treatment.
Yummmmmmmmm!
What’s your favorite foody hack?
