How Encala works

Encala works in two ways

  • Encala provides highly absorbable fat calories to meals, beverages, or snacks
  • Encala helps your body absorb the fat and fat-soluble vitamins that are already in the food you’re eating

How does Encala help?

CF causes the body to produce thick mucus that makes it hard for your intestine to absorb fat and nutrients—so you have to ingest more calories to compensate.

Encala contains an easily absorbed type of fat called lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC), which combines with the fats from other foods and drinks, helping your body absorb additional fat through the intestinal wall. In this way, Encala improves your nutritional status, including your weight, height, and body mass index (BMI), beyond what you would experience on pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (PERT) alone.

PERT supplies enzymes, but may not completely address the malabsorption of fat and GI discomfort:

  • Inadequate levels of fat absorption may continue (a problem for up to 24% of CF patients on PERT)1
  • Pain, bloating, greasy stools, and loss of appetite

Encala is a unique source of healthy fat and it helps you absorb the fat that’s already in the food you eat

Adequate nutrition in people with cystic fibrosis (CF) depends on:

Eating additional calories to get the nutrition, weight, and growth their bodies require.

Digesting nutrients, especially fat and fat-soluble vitamins, which is a challenge with CF. CF can cause pancreatic insufficiency (PI), which means your pancreas does not produce enough lipase—an enzyme that helps break down fats so they can be absorbed.

Absorbing healthy fat and nutrients is essential to good health. Even with PERT, 15% to 25% of the fat and fat-soluble vitamins you eat may not be absorbed.


Multi-Serving Pouch

Ingredients: Tapioca Maltodextrin, Monoglycerides, Soybean Lecithin, Oleic Acid and Linolenic Acid, Calcium Chloride, Water.

Contains: Soy.

Watch this video to learn more about fat digestion and absorption, and to see how Encala helps people with CF absorb nutrients »

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Encala has been proven to help people with CF.

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It’s a simple, convenient way to add healthy fat to your diet.

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1 Woestenenk JW, van der Ent CK, Houwen RHJ. Pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy and coefficient of fat absorption in children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2015;61(3):355-360.
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