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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a food for improving eating and swallowing which has the possibility of being applied to a wide range of patients, which is safe and not influenced by palatability, improves the inducing property of swallowing reflex and promotes the recovery of swallowing function . The food for improving eating and swallowing of the present invention contains 1 × 10 −6 to 1 × 10 −1 M, preferably 1 × 10 −3 to 1 × 10 −1 M menthol. The menthol is preferably a synthesized menthol. The form of the food for improving eating / swallowing of the present invention is preferably a form selected from powder, liquid, jelly, mousse, paste, thick and syrup, and can be ingested after cooling. preferable. Such a food for improving eating / swallowing of the present invention is suitably used for eating / swallowing training for improving dysphagia. [Selection figure] None |