Dysphagia Diet Protocol Guidelones help clients determine the mechanical soft diet prescribed for them. These simple guidelines have been prepared especially for dysphagia diets. In addition to soft diet, the DDP describes a prescribed liquids, purée and mechanical soft diets. Each diet outlines appropriate consistencies of food and foods to be avoided. The brightly colored sheets reduce explanation and instruction time and provide personalized diet plans to follow immediately after a swallow study or discharge from the hospital. With these guidelines, the dysphagia diet can be upgraded or downgraded with minimal instruction. It also helps improve consistency of dysphagia management. Each packet topic has 30 sheets.