What are the qualities in cow’s milk that make it a better choice for infant formula producers?
Cow’s milk has many similarities with breast milk that make it a healthy ingredient for infant formula. In this episode of Expert insights, research specialist Anu Turpeinen discusses the latest research on the fat similarity index – and how this can be put to good use by producers of high-quality infant formula products.
The new article “Similarity Index for the Fat Fraction between Breast Milk and Infant Formulas,” published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, shows that adding cow’s milk makes the lipid composition of infant formulas and breast milk more similar.
To simplify the comparison between fat sources in infant milk formula (IMF) products, Valio will take into use a new way of visualizing the differences.