Feasibility study and optimization of infant formula production using a mixture of camel milk and cow milk

Morteza Raeisi Gahroui,Mohammad Hojjatoleslamy,Hossein Kiani,Hooman Molavi

doi:10.1590/fst.56720

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Abstract

Breast milk is the best food for the baby and infant formula is an essential food for infants who are deprived of breast milk. There has been a lot of research on the optimization of infant formula that uses different milks. The composition of camel milk is close to human milk and is important in terms of nutritional properties, non-food allergy and medicinal value and therapeutic applications, and this can be an appropriate alternative to cow’s milk in infant formula. In the present study, the effect of replacing cow’s milk with camel’s milk in infant formula was investigated. The number of treatments was determined by using the Mixture Design method and the necessary tests were performed for infant formula and physicochemical and qualitative tests including moisture, dry matter, measurement of color parameters, density, particle size, insoluble index, pH, acidity, total sugar, fat, protein, ash, vitamin C, minerals, aflatoxin M1, wettability acceptable and scorched particles were done. The results showed that adding camel’s milk to cow’s milk could meet 87.3% of our expectations for the production of infant formula from camel’s milk and not have an adverse effect on the physicochemical properties of the formula.

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Milk is an essential food for children and it is clear that the best source of nutrition for babies is breast milk
These results were consistent with a study by Soliman (2005) who found that camel milk protein was lower than that of cow, buffalo, and goats
The results showed that the formulation containing 62.24% cow’s milk and 37.76% camel’s milk, could meet 87.30% of our expectations in adapting the physicochemical properties of the resulting milk powder to the desired properties for infant formula

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Milk is an essential food for children and it is clear that the best source of nutrition for babies is breast milk. It is not possible to produce the same product as breast milk, attempts have been made to imitate the nutritional characteristics of breast milk for the normal growth of infants. Infant Formula is considered as an effective alternative to breast milk and has been prepared to mimic the nutritional composition of breast milk. Formulas need to meet the factors of normal physical growth quality and adequate biological quality. On the one hand, due to some nutritional problems caused by cow’s milk, and on the other hand, due to the better properties of camel’s milk, possibility of using Camel milk instead of cow milk was tested (Martin et al, 2016)

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