Don't confuse the product that's popular in hospital that it's for medical use exclusively. Hospitals in the U.S. have Boost and Ensure and those are available

Don't confuse the product that's popular in hospital that it's for medical use exclusively. Hospitals in the U.S. have Boost and Ensure and those are available in grocery stores and pharmacies, but it's not like they say "For medical use only" Boost's box says "Complete Nutritional Drink" Boost is by Nestle, so of course there's chocolate/vanilla and sugar in it. You get about 12 servings for somewhere around 9-12 dollars. College students could easily buy these. Occasionally I've been known to buy a pack when I'm contracting where lunch options are too fastfoody and a better lunch is a boost and maybe a bag of mixed nuts. My problem with these supplements is the amounts of vitamins for example contained in a product say nothing of absorption, I'm not even sure we have any good information on absorption. I guess you'd have to put people in a lab, control their eating and drinking for a several weeks and weigh and examine their BMs and fluids to know what's being absorbed.