Do not blindly follow the trend of experts suggest rational purchase of infant formula
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Nutrition formula is the key to breastfeeding mothers is the first choice, but some new mothers do not have breast milk or lack of breast milk, you need to choose a formula that is closer to the composition of breast milk. Most of the infant formula milk powder on the market today claims to be close to that of breast milk and it is naturally the goal of milk powder manufacturers to bring their products closer to breast milk. In the face of a large variety of infant formula milk powders, the brand will undoubtedly become a key factor in determining consumer purchases. However, in the past few years, the haze of the domestic dairy industry has affected parents' choices so far. However, the price of imported milk powder is still the first choice for most mothers. Then, is it better to import infant formula milk than domestically produced products? With questions, the reporter visited some domestic markets and made a detailed comparison of formula ingredients for infant formula commonly found on the market in the same segment. According to the most valuable nutrients in breastmilk, for example, the heat, protein, DHA, ARA, calcium, vitamin A, carotene, linoleic acid, prebiotic combination, and nucleotides of 12 domestic and foreign formulas Make analogy.
According to the data from the survey results, there are basically no significant differences in the contents of nutrients such as calories, protein, and DHA among the 12 formula milk powders. It is worth noting that although the country does not explicitly require nucleotide content and standards, it can make Milk powder is closer to the nucleotides of breast milk, and Saint-Yuan has added five kinds; second, the calcium content of domestically produced milk powder exceeds imported milk powder; and carotene and prebiotics that promote visual development and improve intestinal function are partially domestically produced. Milk powder was fully added. Through the above series of comparison is not difficult to find, blindly exaggerating the gap between the quality of foreign milk powder and domestic milk powder causes consumers to blindly follow the trend, not only to make domestic milk suffered unfair treatment, but also foreign brands in the market unscrupulous price increases.
When nutrition is concerned, on-demand selection is the only way to pay attention to the nutritional ratio. At the same time, a parenting expert also pointed out that: According to the nutritional needs of different babies' physique and birth conditions, it is also one of the necessary conditions for selecting milk powder. The Sanyuan Nutrition Research Center Relevant person in charge told the reporter that Sanyuan had organized domestic and international well-known nutrition experts to carry out a random inspection of women of gestational age in five cities in the southeast and northwest of China. The study found that the DHA index in the constitution of pregnant women in the western region was far below Women in other regions. This shows that infants in this area should use appropriate formulas with higher DHA levels if they use infant formula.
In addition, the baby's constitution is also a factor that needs to be taken into consideration when selecting the milk powder product correctly. If your baby has certain problems, special attention should be paid when choosing infant formula. For example, preterm infants should choose easily digestible milk for preterm infants; children with asthma skin problems, choose to desensitize milk powder; if the child is always diarrhea with infant formula powder, it is best to immediately switch to lactose-free infant formula.
Among them, taking premature infants as an example, the body's resistance and digestive abilities are all worse than those of full-term babies. Therefore, the goal of nutrition management for preterm infants is to obtain a similar physical structure to the fetuses of the gestational age, and not only to achieve The same weight gain rate. Preterm infants came to the world prematurely, and the accumulation of DHA and ARA in the body was insufficient, and the medium-chain fatty acid MCT that could promote digestion and absorption was not enough. MCT existed in breast milk, which is why experts advocated preterm infants to breastfeed as much as possible. The reason for the baby. However, this is not what all mothers can do. It is understood that this nutrient has been specifically added to Sanyuan's newly-listed milk powder for preterm infants.
There are relatively few formula powders developed for infants with special physical constitutions. The industry analysts have analyzed that the demand for milk powder for premature infants as special nutritional foods is very low, and they cannot enter the market at all levels like ordinary infant milk formulas. They need to be used under the guidance of doctors, and this This kind of product has special formulas, high quality requirements for raw materials, strict health indicators, difficult processing, and large capital investment requirements. This may be the reason why many companies are unwilling to invest.
China's authoritative medical core journal, "China Evidence-based Pediatrics," once published an article entitled "Multicenter, controlled study on the effects of preterm infants / low birth weight infants and full-term infant formula powders on the growth and development of hospitalized preterm infants." The study was conducted on 223 hospitalized preterm infants for up to one year of clinical feeding observations, and concluded that Shengyuan Youbo premature infants and low birth weight infant formula can help premature infants achieve ideal growth rates, and Provides better nutrition than ordinary infant formula and reduces the incidence of stunting.
Good quality creates a good domestic brand. China is at the peak of population growth. According to statistics, there are more than 70 million infants and children aged 0-3 years, and about 17 million newborns are added each year, and 20% of them need milk powder for feeding. Therefore, China, together with the United States and Japan, has become the first camp of global infant formula milk powder consumption. This large user base attracts many international milk powder giants.
Looking at the entire international environment, although the foreign brand infant formula powder has entered the Chinese market with its experience in overseas markets for many years, the domestic brands also look to the effective use and configuration of overseas advantageous resources and actively serve domestic consumers. .
According to reports, some domestic large-scale infant formula powder manufacturers can not only match foreign brands in terms of equipment and quality control, but also have imported milk sources of the same quality as foreign milk powder on the basis of raw material selection, and completely guarantee product safety at the source. Product quality lays the foundation for winning the market establishment.
As Song Kungang, chairman of the China Dairy Industry Association, previously stated: “The brand gap is certainly inevitable, but there is not much difference between domestic brands of infant formula and imported products. At present, the standards for domestic infant formula are It is formulated with reference to international standards and strictly follows the national standards. The gap is not large compared to foreign products."
Therefore, there are also many babycare experts who have given such advice: "Facing up to the product itself, we should use a rational attitude to choose a milk powder product suitable for our baby."