After the baby is born, the diet for the entrance can be said to be quite exquisite, and the smaller the child, the more studied the food. After the baby is born, the best food is breast milk, but some mothers have no way to breastfeed the baby out of helplessness, or other reasons, so they have to give the baby a second choice and choose baby milk powder.
There are many types of milk powder today, and the milk powder is imitated to the greatest extent, but there is still a big gap in the composition.
A variety of milk powders have been detected in flavor ingredients, containing many large domestic brands
Recently, a friend hurriedly approached me, and when they met, they first shared a link with me, and I opened the link to see that the content was about the safety of baby milk powder. The video in the link said that a number of milk powders have been detected to have flavor ingredients, including many big brands.
The milk powder that my friend's child was currently drinking was among them, and my friend was also very anxious, so he asked me for authenticity.
In fact, the milk powder has been exposed to contain flavor ingredients has not been the first time, before there was a big-name milk powder was detected in the news of flavor, and this time is different from before, is in the baby a piece of milk powder detected flavor, it can be seen that the milk powder contains flavor, is more and more intense.
The Ministry of Health of the Mainland stipulates that flavor can be used in larger infants, infant formula and infant cereals, that is, milk powder for more than 6 months, and the maximum dosage is "5mg/ml and 7mg/100g" respectively.
As long as the amount added to the milk powder is on an international scale, then even if you eat this type of milk powder, it will not be harmful to the growth and development of the baby. Despite this, it is still not recommended to choose a milk powder with flavors for your baby.
As an ingredient that is not necessary for your baby's development, why should you add flavor ingredients to your milk powder?
Many mothers in the choice of milk powder for the baby, most of them will avoid the addition of sensitive ingredients such as flavor, but on the market, more and more milk powder in the 3 stages began to add flavor, some even in the 2 stages, or even 1 paragraph began to add, so why add flavor to the milk powder?
Flavor is a widely circulated edible spice that is added to foods with a strong milky aroma. Flavor is an artificial additive, and is not a necessary ingredient for the baby's growth and development, the reason why the merchant will choose to add it to the milk powder, often because of the following reasons:
Make a profit
Children have a memory for the first bite of food, in a milk powder containing flavors, children will enhance the taste after eating, after eating is more easily accepted, once used to a certain brand of milk powder, then in a short period of time, it will be difficult to adapt to other brands of milk powder.
As long as the taste of the baby's first milk is obtained, it is equivalent to obtaining huge business opportunities and high profits, so adding flavor to the milk powder has also become a means of profit for milk powder merchants.
Flavors can mask some of the flavors in the formula that your baby resists
Milk powder is actually not as delicious as we think, some of the nutrients in it, will have some special taste, like fish oil provided with DHA, will have its own fishy taste; and in hydrolyzed milk powder, the hydrolyzed protein will have a bitter taste.
And these flavors will seriously affect the baby's experience of drinking milk powder, so adding flavors to the milk powder can cover up these flavors well and allow the baby to better accept the milk powder.
The flavor contained in milk powder is harmful to the child's body, and parents should be clear
Increase the burden on your child's kidneys
Normal breast milk does not contain any flavor components, and once the newborn baby drinks milk powder containing flavor, it will increase the burden on the child's kidneys and is not conducive to the growth and development of the child.
Your child has difficulty transferring milk
The addition of flavor to the milk powder will be more sweet in taste and more conducive to the child's acceptance, but if the child drinks milk powder with flavor from the first bite, it will cause the child to "taste heavy", which will bring great trouble to the child's change of milk powder brand and the addition of complementary foods in the future.
It is not conducive to the health of the child
Food in the food is too fragrant and too sweet food, the general calories are also relatively high, such milk powder often additives are also more, but also not conducive to the health of children.
How to determine whether milk powder contains flavor? Ingredient list parents should see clearly
In the position of the ingredient list
Generally on the ingredient list of milk powder, the order of ingredients is in accordance with the "law of decreasing", so the position of the flavor is almost at the back of the ingredient list, and parents can find it at the back of the ingredient list.
Be wary of "hiding" flavors
Fragrance is just a general term, there are many flavors are aliases, but also belong to the scope of flavors, such as spices, vanilla, vanillin, vanilla bean extract, etc., are also flavors, parents in the purchase of milk powder, to be carefully identified.
Kojima would like to say:
Now there are many brands of milk powder, if parents find ingredients containing flavor in the milk powder that their children drink, they should be replaced as soon as possible, otherwise they will lead to children loving to eat fragrant food in the future, which is not conducive to the formation of children's eating habits.