In order to maintain patient’s nutrition and promote wound healing surgery recovery, dietary adjustment of esophageal cancer patients after surgery is very important. The use of diet therapy after esophageal cancer surgery can improve the symptoms of dysphagia, chest tightness and constipation. Let’s take a look at what is good to eat after esophageal cancer surgery. I. What is good to eat after esophageal cancer surgery? After two weeks of surgery, patients can gradually change to semi-liquid diet and soft rice, such as rice porridge with meat (chicken, fish) soup, noodle soup with meat, egg custard with milk, red bean porridge with millet, cereal porridge with tender egg and egg custard with minced meat. Milk cereal porridge, carrot puree, spinach puree, cauliflower puree, milk tofu, steamed soft rice, fried eggs and scrambled eggs are also available for patients during this period. In addition, the daily diet should contain sufficient amount of zinc, calcium and multivitamins. After that, the diet should be gradually adjusted to a nutritious, tasty and easy-to-digest ordinary meal. The diet after esophageal cancer surgery can be started from the following points: 1. Chew slowly and prepare both meat and vegetables: eating too fast, too hot and too hard will stimulate the esophagus and cause adverse reactions, which is not beneficial to patients’ recovery. 2.Conditioning with congee diet: Most of the esophageal cancer patients are old, during the post-operative recovery, they can be conditioned with congee diet, such as various kinds of millet congee and red date and glutinous rice congee. Normally, more milk, eggs, soy products, etc. can be added. If patients have no appetite, they can consume fresh hawthorn, chicken gizzard, etc. with meal simmering soup to enhance appetite. 3, medicinal care: dietary care is actually dietary therapy, for the patient’s situation to choose the appropriate medicinal food, can improve swallowing difficulties, constipation and other diseases. Such as walnut, honey, orange cake, kiwi, carp, snapper and so on. Besides, there are also foods that cannot be eaten after esophageal cancer surgery: tobacco, alcohol; moldy and contaminated food; spicy and stimulating food, such as pepper, chili, cinnamon, etc.; smoked and pickled food containing nitrosamines; avoid hard and indigestible and rough food. Dietary precautions after esophageal cancer surgery: You can’t eat spicy, hot, smelly and waking stimulating foods after esophageal cancer surgery, and these foods will also cause esophageal spasm and discomfort to patients. When choking occurs in esophageal cancer patients, do not swallow forcibly, otherwise it will stimulate local cancer tissue bleeding, spreading, metastasis or pain. When choking is serious, patients should be allowed to eat liquid or semi-liquid food. Avoid cold liquid food and cold noodles, milk, egg soup, etc. that have been left for a long time. Because the narrow part of esophagus is obviously stimulated by cold food, it will easily cause spasm of esophagus, nausea and vomiting, pain and numbness. The diet of esophageal cancer should ensure the freshness of food and not to eat moldy and spoiled food. As moldy food contains cancer-causing factors, patients should pay more attention to dietary hygiene.