THE EFFECT OF ENRICHED FOOD ON THE MAJOR CONSTITUENTS OF HUMAN BREAST MILK / 营养学报

ABSTRACT

The fortified food for lactating mothers supplied by Tianjin Food Research Institute was a powder made of soy-bean flour,egg,sugar and soyaoil,fortfied by calcium phosphate dibasic,riboflavin and ascorbic acid.Each package of the powder was 125 gm by weight providing 554kilocalorie,36gm protein,24gm fat and 829 mg calcim.It was given to 10 mothers,one package daily for 35 days.As aresult,both body weights and RBC of the mothers,and weights and heights of their babies were increased significantly. At the same time a marked increase in fat and calcium content of the breast milk was also noted.There was certain increment in the percentage of linoleic acid in the breast milk.The difference between the breast milk secretion before and after the supplementation was not significant.