ulcer diet

5.1

A diet of foods gentle on the stomach to avoid hurting a stomach sore

noun
/ˈʌlsər daɪət/

: dieta para úlceras

She carefully followed an ulcer diet, avoiding spicy and acidic foods altogether.

Examples

After being diagnosed with a stomach ulcer, his doctor recommended an ulcer diet to reduce discomfort.
Hospitals often provide patients recovering from surgery with an ulcer diet to prevent digestive irritation.
An ulcer diet can help reduce stomach pain.
Many doctors recommend an ulcer diet for patients.
After being diagnosed with a stomach ulcer, his doctor recommended an ulcer diet to reduce discomfort.
Hospitals often provide patients recovering from surgery with an ulcer diet to prevent digestive irritation.
She carefully followed an ulcer diet, avoiding spicy and acidic foods altogether.

Synonyms

bland diet

vsulcer diet

1 3.5

A set of plain, mild foods that are easy to digest

focuses specifically on foods that do not irritate internal digestive sores

light diet

vsulcer diet

3.2

Food that is easy to digest and avoids fried or spicy foods for people recovering from illness

aims at gentleness for digestive sores rather than recovery from illness

How Gentle

clear liquid diet

Specialized

1 3.7

ulcer diet

5.1

soft diet

1 2.9

bland diet

1 3.5

Surface Forms

ulcer diet singular

ulcer diets plural

Morphology

ulcer + diet

This is a straightforward noun + noun composition: 'ulcer' specifies the medical condition and 'diet' denotes a planned way of eating, so the combined meaning ('a diet for people with ulcers' or foods gentle on ulcers) is directly derivable. The compositional pattern is common in English (and many other languages), making it easily understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.

Etymology

The term ulcer diet comes from a doctor's advice to eat foods that are gentle when you have an ulcer, a sore in the stomach. So, an ulcer diet means choosing foods that are 'soothing' and 'do not irritate' the stomach.