When buying milk powder or lactoferrin, probiotics and other products, parents have more or less heard of the concept of modifying milk powder and formula, but don't know what the difference is between them. And hear "modulated milk powder", easy to give people a cheap feeling, not as high as "formula". So, what is the difference between the two? The next step is to find out.
The difference between the modulation of milk powder and formula:1. different processing methods
Milk powder is the method of refrigeration or heating, remove basically all the water in the milk, dry and then into powder form. Milk powder is made of powdered milk after removing water, it is suitable for storage. Powdered milk is made from fresh cow's milk or fresh goat's milk by refrigerating or heating, removing basically all the water in the milk, drying it, and adding a small amount of vitamins and minerals. Minerals and other processed from the brewed food category.
2. Milk powder can be made into cheese, sour milk, whipped cream; and milk powder, not plus nutrients.
3. Ordinary milk powder, generally refers to whole milk or skimmed milk powder, that is, the disinfection of fresh milk immediately (or first skimmed) powder coating production manufacturing into milk powder; modulation of the milk powder, generally refers to different groups of requirements, plus the corresponding micronutrients of the milk powder.
The difference between prepared milk powder and formula is that all the baby's nutrient requirements, drinking formula, no need to add other nutrients. Formula milk powder is actually also in the ordinary milk powder at the root of the preparation, the main raw materials are powder, whey powder, soy whey protein, in the preparation of the link need to add the appropriate amount of minerals. Vitamins and other trace elements are subsequently made into a powdered brewed milk product. This type of milk powder can provide all the nutrients required for the growth of the baby, through that technology to improve the milk product is what we call formula.
Formulas can give babies nutrients not found in complementary foods, such as calcium. Iron and other essential elements of the human body, if the baby in the growth of the lack of, it is easy to lead to anemia, rickets and other diseases.