I get this for my elderly mother and she is able to tolerate drinking an Ensure + in the AM and Ensure High Protein in the PM while eating real food in between. Without Ensure, she would have a hard time getting enough nutrition given her absence of apatite. There are two issues with this product, though. She cannot open the Ensure High Protein by due to its hermetically sealed cap and only likes the chocolate flavor. Abbott can't do anything about the latter, but they can and absolutely need to change the lid so that the elderly or arthritic are able to open the product by themselves. I'm not taking any stars off for the lid issue, but hope someone from Abbott reads all of these negative reviews and fixes this problem. Read more

I have to say thank you for this product!! My mother was steadily loosing weight and not eating living by herself. She has mild dementia and was progressing at a pace much faster than we expected. Thanks to her doctor and this product...she loves it and it has made her eat, which in turn has made her gain weight, which in turn to me, feeds her brain and slowed down the progression. She has so much energy that its hard for her to stay still. Thank again for bringing that light back in her eyes and for this product and am the flavors!!!! Read more

I started using these for breakfast with a banana because I'm usually not a breakfast person. What happens is I end up overeating at lunch because I skipped breakfast so this is a good way of starting out my day with my vitamins. No more overeating. I have actually lost weight. I am going to continue using this as my first meal every day with a banana. Low calorie, low fat, and high protein. Read more

I recently had major surgery, and you don't always want to eat a full meal, or don't want to eat at all. Ensure's a decent way to get a "meal". This price is way less than what you can find it for at retail stores such as Walmart, plus with Prime shipping to our door is free, so I think this was a pretty good deal.I docked a star from flavor because I've always thought Ensure (and frankly all similar drinks) taste chalky. I wouldn't choose them (any of them) as a first choice for a meal replacement, but they're not bad if you're hungry, don't feel like (or can't ) cooking. Read more

The flavor of these was absolutely incredible. It was my favorite, and I regularly drank one a day. It genuinely tastes like chocolate milk/a milkshake without the consistency. All was well and good until today... Today I noticed my Ensure tasted a bit like metal. I checked the bottom of the jug, which said it wouldn't expire until 11/2020, and decided I must be crazy. I continued drinking and suddenly got a big gulp of something fuzzy/hairy/stringy. I have absolutely no idea what it was, but the cap had been on, so I knew it wasn't something that had fallen in from my environment. It had been in there, even after I shook it up. This made me throw up violently, and I can honestly say I'm put off from Ensure for life now. So gross.Edit:Chose to open up another one and pour it into a cup, and sure enough there was a weird slime (as seem in the pictures, almost like snot) and a weird bug like thing. Gross. Read more

In no way, of course, should you ever drink Ensure to replace all meals; however, I have found that using it versus a snack has helped me a great deal with energy as well as shedding a good 10 pounds. While I have no actual proof to back that up, and again, no one should drink these strictly as a meal day in and day out, they are a very valid replacement for meals here and there, and it has helped me. For me, too, the taste is delicious! Read more

I am not elderly and I’m fairly healthy. However due to a medical condition I became anemic and needed to add iron to my diet. Due to G.I. issues, iron pills were not possible for me. I tried Ensure because it has 25% of the daily value of iron. I was very surprised at all the other nutrition that it has including zinc, protein, and several vitamins. This product is very tasty. It comes in easy to handle plastic containers and the packaging was well protected for shipping. Even though my iron deficiency is improving - no doubt due to this product’s help, I will continue to use it to supplement my nutrition and at times as a convenient-quick meal replacement on the go. Ensure is not just for grandma anymore! Read more

Not as good tasting as the regular Ensure Strawberry but, the original is made to help maintain weight, very high in calories and only if you have absolutely No Problem With Sugar, Otherwise,This one Tastes Good and is so much lower in Calories and Sugar therefore much healthier.Choose the Regular Ensure if you can’t Maintan Your Weight and Choose this one if you weight is normal and to maintain a healthy diet.These are by far the best tasting nutritional drinks on the market and even though I’m not a Strawberry Fan at all, this Strawberry Flavor is really really good!!! Read more