Built around Arla Foods Ingredients’ Lacprodan portfolio of protein ingredients, Staging is an improved approach to infant formula designed to reflect the fact that the composition of breast milk changes significantly during lactation.
At present, formula-fed babies’ diets do not take account of this, and they are usually given a ‘static’ diet during their first six months. However, Arla Foods Ingredients has identified that the protein content of breast milk is dynamic and changes constantly during this period.
In response, the Denmark-based company has developed blends of specialised milk protein fractions that will help manufacturers create formulas that mimic the changing nutritional profile of milk more closely during this short, yet critical time in a baby’s development.
Arla Foods Ingredients is launching the new Staging concept at the annual meeting of ESPGHAN, the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition.
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