How to Choose the Best Baby Formula for Your Little One?

Milk formula

All pediatricians, neonatologists, and older people say that breast milk is the best food for babies and the panacea for all diseases. But what should mothers who have no opportunity for one reason or another to feed their babies naturally? For this, there is a saving organic (bio) formula. Which can provide a child with a balanced diet and saturate his body with beneficial bifidobacteria and minerals.

How to choose a baby formula for inexperienced parents?

It shouldn’t contain starch and sucrose. There were omega-3 and 6, prebiotics, and nucleotides. As for the palm oil content, good or not, the question is debatable. It is in most formulas and is not a threat to the baby’s health. What is the best formula to give for complementary feeding – goat’s milk or cow’s milk? Many people think that goat’s milk is less allergenic. But this is not true. The selected formula must be suitable for your baby. Therefore, first, buy a jar of milk wisely. Think at once about whether you will be able to afford to buy this mixture in the future, whether it is affordable to you and whether it is in short supply in local stores.

In two words – the mixture must not be cheap. After all, the price of the mixture consists not only of the manufacturer’s profits but also the cost of the components and technological adaptation of the protein. All of the novelty components of the formula (what the manufacturers advertise as a great achievement – taurine, polyunsaturated fatty acids, these units of hundreds of substances supplied free by the mother in her breast milk) cost a decent amount of money, being only a few dozen components of the formula. And let them be worth it. And it’s great that they’re there. Every ingredient that scientists have managed to add to the formula brings it a fraction of a percent closer in quality to breast milk. And when it comes to your baby’s health, every fraction of a percent is worth its weight in gold.

How adaptable should a formula be?

The formula must be adapted. The word “adapted” means that the formula contains protein that has been technologically broken down into atoms and reduced to match the protein of breast milk. As a result, the label should say that the protein is partially hydrolyzed and that the formula is hypoallergenic. The non-adapted formula should not be used. And kefir, goat and cow’s milk, and non-adapted milk products should not be used before 12 months of age. After all, unadapted protein in these products affects the hormonal background of the baby, gives a huge load on the kidneys, and irreversibly changes the intestinal microflora. All this creates a systemic metabolic disorder, which will accompany the person throughout life, making this life shorter and more painful. The younger the child who is fed unadapted protein, the more severe the consequences. The formula should contain at least a minimum of protein. The amount of protein in breast milk is 12 grams per liter, the formula is now impossible to put less than 14 grams per liter. This is the kind of formula you need to buy. This is any premium formula, but please read the labels! The mix must be modern. It must contain all those little substances, like taurine and linoleic acid, which have already been learned to add to the mixture, making it at least a little closer to the composition of breast milk. Try EU formula it meets the standards given above.

Desirable constituents of artificial nutrition

Milk formula
A mother is feeding her baby with artificial milk formula

The formula must contain lactose. This carbohydrate is better for an infant than sucrose and fructose. For example, it helps the baby taking the formula avoid constipation. The formula should contain probiotics or prebiotics. It is not known whether and in what form these beneficial ingredients reach the intestines, but since hope springs eternal, it is better to buy formula with them than without them. A formula with probiotics strengthens. And prebiotic formula stimulates the gut because prebiotics is fiber. The formula should contain oligosaccharides, which are food for bifidobacteria. The formula should also contain nucleotides, vitamins, macro and micronutrients, and minerals. The more the better. The presence of these substances increases the cost of consistency, so a study of the price tag and the label guarantee the purchase of a conventional product.

 

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