A therapeutic diet is a meal plan that controls the intake of certain foods or nutrients. It is usually a modification of regular diet used to improve specific health condition like Diabetes, Obesity, Hypocholesteremia etc. To provide texture modifications due to problems with chewing and/or swallowing.
A meal plan to control and promote the intake of certain foods or nutrients is called diet therapy To improve health and well-being, Mudambi and Rajagopal define diet therapy as promoting healthy eating, especially promoting food prescribed by a diet/nutrition specialist.