Ensure Homemade Vanilla High Protein Shake Review

With the newest flu running rampant and seemingly infecting nearly everyone there is very likely many people who not getting the nutrition they need.  Due to loss of appetite or from being so sick you just don't feel like eating.  This recently happened to one of my children.  I found myself very worried because he was not eating, and he is naturally very thin.  The solution for him was Ensure Shakes.

Ensure Shakes are shakes that are meant to be drunk when someone needs to either put on weight or for someone who needs to maintain weight.  They also provide protein as well as several different vitatimins and minerals to help keep you heathly even when you can't or don't want to eat.  During our bad flu experience we tried several different flavors.  One of the favorites was the homemade Vanilla Flavor which I am reviewing now, but truth be told the chocolate was the overwhelming flavor. 

Ensure is not cheap it comes in a couple of different sizes there is 6 8oz bottle size,  and yoiu can also buy it by the case of 24 either way the shakes come to about $2.00 per shake.  But if someone is becoming nutritionally deficient these shakes can be very benificial. 

Ensure shakes provide the following:

The bottle holds 8 ounces of shake. The shake provides 250 calories, and half of that is from fat. The total grams of fat are 6 grams, saturated fat 1 gram, Polyunsaturated Fat 3 grams, Monounsaturated Fat 2 grams. The shakes also have Cholesterol 5 mg. Potassium 390 mg, total carb. 40 grams, Dietery Fiber 1 gram, sugars 22 grams, Protein 9 grams. Sodium 190 mg.


Vitamins and Minerals Provided

The following vitamins and minerals provide the following percentages of the RDA: Vitamin A 25%, C 50%, Calcium 30%, Iron 25%, Vitamin D 25%, Vitamin E 25%, Vitamin K 25%, Thiamin 25%, Riboflavin 25%, Niacin 25%, Vitamin B6 25%, Folate 25%, Vitamin B12 25%, Biotin 25%, Pantothenic Acid 25%, Phosphorus 25%, Iodine 25%, Magnesium 25%, Zinc 25%, Selenium 25%, copper 25%, Manganese 6%, Chromium 25%, Molybdenum 50%, Chloride 8 %, Choline 15%

Ingredients

Water, Sugar(sucrose) corn syrup, corn Maltodextrin, Milk Protein concentrate, Soy Oil, Cocoa Powder (processed with Alkali), Soy Protein Concentrate, Canola Oil, Corn Oil, Soy Lecithin, Carrageenan, Natural and Artificial Flavor, Pottassium Citrate, Magnesium Phosphate, Magnesium, choloride, Calcium Phosphate, Sodium Citrate, Salt (Sodium Chloride), Choline Chloride, Ascorbic Acid, Potassium Choloride, di0Alpha-Tocopheryl Acetate, Ferric Phosphate, Zinc Sulfate, Niacinamide, Manganese Sulfate, Calcium Pantothenate, cupric sulfate, Vitamin A Palmitate, Thiamine Chloride Hydrochloride, Pkyridoxine Hydrochloride, Riboflavin, Folic Acid, Chromium chloride, Biotin, Sodium Molybdate, Sodium Selenate, Potassium Iodide, Cyanocobalamin, Phylloquinone, and Vitamin D3, Contains Milk and Soy ingredgredients, Lactose Free.

Other Flavors

Ensure shakes also come in cans and also come in different flavors. Here are the other flavors:

Chocolate
Strawberry Cream
Butter Pecan
Coffee Latte

The Homemade Vanilla is quite tasty it tastes a lot like Slim Fast Vanilla, but is actually a bit sweeter, and a bit tastier.  You really taste that vanilla flavoring coming through.

My kids all liked the Vanilla flavor and I did as well. 

Ensure shakes can be a very important edition to a get well plan when someone is sick and is unable to eat.  If it were not for the Ensure shakes, we very well may have had to take our son to the hospital as he was not eating, and was losing too much weight.  The Ensure Shakes helped him to gain his weight back, and maintain his weight while he was sick. 

If you or a loved one is sick and won't or can not eat you need to get Ensure or something like it.  But I can promise you that Ensure shakes are very convenient and very healthy.