What is skimmed milk powder? What type of baby is it for?

Many couples become parents for the first time, and when the baby is in a situation, they are completely unaware of what to do, and they often face some very normal problems and make a fuss. Among them, the problem of milk powder is even more blind spots.

Skimmed milk powder is no fat? No, and it's a lot less nutritious than whole milk powder. Skimmed milk powder is based on the whole milk powder production process to increase the degreasing process, the difficulty and cost of removing all fat by centrifugal method is relatively high, in general, the fat content in the final product is about 1%, and some requirements are not higher than 2%. The fat content of whole milk powder is about 26%, relatively speaking, the fat content of skimmed milk powder is very low, but this does not mean that the fat content is 0.

So, what is the impact of less fat content on the nutrition of milk powder? Fats supply energy to the body and provide essential fatty acids and fat-soluble vitamins dissolved in them. The fat is removed, the proportion of other ingredients increases accordingly, but the fat-soluble nutrients are gone.

Through comparison, it can be found that the protein and carbohydrate of skimmed milk powder are about l/3 higher than that of whole milk powder, and the content of calcium, phosphorus and some vitamins is also higher than that of whole milk powder, but the iron content of whole milk powder is 3 times higher than that of skimmed milk powder. And with the separation of fat, the vitamins a, e, d, k and other fat-soluble nutrients in the milk powder are also lost, for infants and young children who take milk powder as a staple food, long-term consumption of skimmed milk powder is easy to lead to insufficient intake of fat-soluble vitamins.

Therefore, from the perspective of nutrition, the nutritional composition of whole milk powder is more comprehensive and suitable for more people. The whole milk powder is more fat, the calorific value is about 1/3 higher than the skimmed milk powder, people who need to control weight can still consider skimmed milk powder, and the missing fat-soluble vitamins can be supplemented through other ways.

Similarly, skimmed milk powder is suitable for infants with indigestion and patients with diarrhea, gallbladder disease, hyperlipidemia, chronic pancreatitis, etc., who are not suitable for excessive fat intake and need to supplement nutrition.

In addition, the removal of fat will also affect the taste and taste of milk powder, milk flavor substances (milk flavor) is the degradation product of protein, fat, lactose these three major types of substances, or the derivatives of each class of substances react to each other. Therefore, the taste of skimmed milk powder is not so fragrant, and it is understandable.