AI creates soft, nutritious, APPETIZING meals for elderly parents with chewing or swallowing difficulty — adapted from their favorite foods, packed with hidden protein, and served with the dignity they deserve. Not baby food. Real meals.
They're not lying — appetite fades with age, medications dull taste, and eating alone is joyless. But 'not hungry' leads to malnutrition.
Soft food doesn't have to mean liquid food. But when you don't know the techniques, everything gets blended into the same beige mush.
A pureed dinner in a plastic bowl with a bib feels like a hospital. The same dinner plated beautifully on china feels like Sunday lunch.
Which textures are dangerous? What if they aspirate? You err on the side of everything pureed — but they refuse to eat mush.