Infant foods: Debatable questions and real answers
Abstract
In Ms/her practice, a pediatrician frequently faces ambiguous questions about foods for infants during the first year of life in particular. Not only parents ask pediatricians these questions - the latter naturally arise during work and attempts to pinpoint the problem of adequate nutrition during infancy. These questions are whether complementary foods containing starch cause allergy in an infant; gluten is a detrimental ingredient of infant foods; hydrolysis of cereal polysaccharides is essential; palm oil is dangerous to an infant's health; butter fat as an ingredient infant foods may be harmful to a child. Among other things, butter fat in globules is shown to contain phospholipids, gangliosides, cholesterol, which are essential for a child's development and absent in infant formulas. In this connection, addition of fat globule membranes to foods is promising in terms of the provision of an infant with lipids of full value. There is a need for further in-depth investigations of infant feeding practices, by keeping in mind numerous features of an infant's organism.
Keywords
children,
infant feeding,
starch,
gluten,
lipids,
fat globules,
cholesterol,
phospholipids,
gangliosides.
About the Author
S. V. Belmer
N.I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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Belmer S.V. Infant foods: Debatable questions and real answers. Rossiyskiy Vestnik Perinatologii i Pediatrii (Russian Bulletin of Perinatology and Pediatrics). 2015;60(5):121-126. (In Russ.)
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