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Post by Tero » Wed May 18, 2022 8:28 pm

No, not the atheists eating babies thing. Formula.

I used to buy a couple of brands of baby food and switch them back and forth. They usually forgot something.

It's a whole science. Some things are essential, some are fancy additives.
Infant formula is designed as a complete substitute for human milk to meet the full nutritional needs of babies under 12 months of age. Internationally, the required components for formulas are set by the Codex Alimentarius, a joint food standards program overseen by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and WHO. Individual countries can also set additional guidelines.

In total, the codex lists more than 30 required nutritional ingredients for infant formula, including vitamins and minerals, but the three major constituents are fats, proteins, and carbohydrates—the primary building blocks that little humans need to grow and develop. “The most common formulas are going to be cow’s milk protein—with whey and casein as the most common proteins,” Sobik says. “Then they’ll have vegetable oils as the fat source and lactose as the carbohydrate source.”

The codex specifies that formulas should have 1.8–3.0 g of protein, 4.4–6.0 g of fat, and 9.0–14.0 g of carbohydrates (specifically lactose or glucose) per 100 kcal, a typical infant-sized serving of formula. The US Food and Drug Administration has similar recommendations.

In addition to the principal building blocks that compose their diet, infants need supplements of vitamins and minerals. Even babies fed human milk need a secondary source of vitamin D, which is a required nutrient in infant formulas, along with other cofactors and electrolytes.

Of those micronutrients, Sobik says, iron is one of the most important. Because their iron stores will run out within a few weeks of birth, infants need a supplement in their diet. In the US, the FDA requires that all formulas are fortified with between 0.15 and 3.0 mg of iron per 100 kcal, a range recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics (Pediatrics 1999, DOI: 10.1542/peds.104.1.119). The codex sets the iron minimum at 0.45 mg per 100 kcal.

Another additive that some brands also advertise is human milk oligosaccharide (HMO). Steven Townsend, an organic chemist at Vanderbilt University, led a team that showed that these complex carbohydrates act as prebiotics in human milk by promoting healthy bacterial communities in the guts of infants, which may contribute to a stronger immune system (ACS Infect. Dis. 2017, DOI: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.7b00183). Human milk has these different sugar molecules at concentrations that vary according to a number of factors, including a parent’s genetics and the infant’s age.
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Post by Tero » Wed May 18, 2022 8:31 pm

With a semi-monopoly and Abbott screwing up some lots, I was thinking you could make some from soy milk and children's vitamins crushed up. You would need to know how much. Measure the toddler weight and compare to the baby to get the daily dose of vitamins.

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Re: baby food

Post by JimC » Wed May 18, 2022 10:24 pm

Tilly was mostly breast-fed, with some supplementary formula. They graduated her to solid foods early, and she had a wide variety of home prepared, very healthy food, often from their veggie patch. They made sure to include nuts and other things that children can become allergic to. She is very good at feeding herself, now...
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Post by rasetsu » Thu May 19, 2022 1:36 pm

I don't understand why Biden is diverting baby food to flies, it makes no sense. That's the last thing we should be doing.

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Post by Tero » Fri May 20, 2022 1:04 am

The culprit to our US shortage is one Abbott plant in Michigan. The did not run bacterial counts on lots since September. Just stamped the documents.

A famous case in the drug industry is an FDA inspector that tracked down a contracted starting chemical. At the specialty chemical company the analyst died. They did not hire a new guy. They just made a stamp of his signature and continued.
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Post by pErvinalia » Fri May 20, 2022 1:30 am

Why does Biden hate babies so much?
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Re: baby food

Post by aufbahrung » Fri May 20, 2022 2:08 am

Soviet 'merica. How's that working out then?
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