High risk choking foods
Avoid these textures if you are on a texture modified diet (IDDSI Level 3 – 6)
Hard foods: boiled sweets, nuts
Mixed thin/thick textures: cereal with milk, soup with food pieces
Dry foods: crackers, dry cake, bread
Crispy or crunchy food: crisps, flaky pastry
Pips, seeds, pith/inside skin, skins or shells: peas, grapes
Crumbly foods: biscuits, pie crust
Tough foods: steak, bacon
Skin, bone, or gristle
Floppy foods: lettuce, thinly sliced cucumber, spinach
Stringy foods: beans, rhubarb
Sticky foods: marshmallows, some cheeses
Juicy foods where the juice separates off in the mouth