1 | How to subdivide milk powder? There are many kinds of milk powder on the market, and it is often seen that different manufacturers divide it into12345 ... and so on. What is the significance of milk powder segmentation? Is it possible to disturb the position and eat casually? According to Scientific Opinions on the Basic Components of Infant Formula published by EFSA 2065 438+04, infant formula is divided into two main parts:
A, before adding complementary food, infant formula (IF) mainly refers to 4-6 months ago.
B. Follow-up formula milk powder (FOF) after adding complementary food, mainly after 4 months.
Because the nutrition required after 1 year old almost overlaps with FOF, ESFA thinks that 1+ milk powder can be managed in two parts.
2 | Difference in the number of milk powder segments
So, what is the most important difference between a formula with FOF and a formula without IF?
1, imitate breast milk and add complementary food. All modern technologies can be imitated (a few ingredients are not completely imitated, such as iron and vitamin D3). The reason is that the composition ratio of milk itself is too different from that of breast milk. Just imitate it according to 100, at least make sure there are no mistakes. This formula and proportion will not stimulate the baby's intestines and can be absorbed normally.
2. After adding complementary food, the baby's intestine gradually matures, and the formula ratio no longer needs to be completely copied from breast milk. But it is still mainly breast milk. Interestingly, according to EFSA's review of various ingredients in formula powder, the "high-end ingredients" used by conventional milk powder companies, such as OPO(sn-2 triglyceride palmitate), taurine, nucleotide, etc., have little claimed effect on babies who have already added complementary food, so it can be said that it is unnecessary to add these ingredients to FOF milk powder.
3. After1year-old, because more than 50% of energy supply depends on complementary food, which is rich in nutrition, the nutritional function of milk powder is even lower. Protein, calcium and other key elements in most 1+ milk powder formulas are almost the same as milk (only the formula produced in the European Union contains about 2/3 milk), so it can be said that most brands of 1+ milk powder are equal to milk fortified with iron, iodine, DHA and vitamin D3. The American Academy of Pediatrics even directly recommended that you can drink milk directly after 1 year old. Because iron, iodine, DHA and vitamin D3 can all be obtained from complementary food. 3 | Can a big baby have the first bite of milk powder?
Since milk powder has been ignored since 1+, can the initial milk powder be eaten all the time? Then we need to know and compare the differences between the initial milk powder and 1+ milk powder.
If children of all ages take the first sip of milk powder, there are many situations.
Therefore, there is no obvious difference in most nutrients between the initial stage and the 1+ stage. Considering the influence of complementary food, the difference of individual elements can be completely ignored. The biggest difference is the content of "calcium".
The calcium content of ordinary milk is about 100mg/ 100ml. In order to imitate the calcium content of 40mg/ 100ml in breast milk, the initial milk powder will "take out" excess calcium from the milk. Because the calcium requirement of 0- 1 year is 250mg/D, 600ml milk powder per day can completely meet the demand. However, after 1 year-old, the milk quantity dropped to about 500ml, but the demand for calcium soared to 600 mg/d. Conventional complementary food can only provide 1-200mg of calcium. If you still eat the initial milk powder, there will be a gap of about 200mg in calcium intake every day! On the contrary, if you want to choose formula milk, 1+ grade milk powder close to the calcium content of milk is naturally more suitable for babies over 1 year old, rather than expensive low-grade milk powder. Moreover, 1+ milk powder has fewer processes and lower cost. From an economic point of view, there is no need to spend extra money to keep eating the initial milk powder.
But there is still a lot of milk powder at home that I don't want to waste. It's a pity to throw it away. That can also be given to older babies-but note that when giving milk powder to children over 1 year old, it is necessary to fill the calcium gap of 200mg, such as adding high calcium ingredients or adding extra calcium.
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