Goat milk mixes: reviews, price and composition. What are the benefits of goat milk formulas?

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

The most valuable product for feeding babies in the first year of life is mother's milk. Unfortunately, there are circumstances in which breastfeeding is not possible. In such cases, the baby needs a mixture that is as similar in composition to human milk as possible. It should provide good nutrition and strengthen the immune system.

Today, on the shelves of children's departments, you can see mixtures of goat's milk. What are their advantages in comparison with analogues, and is such a product capable of becoming a complete daily diet? You can answer these questions by studying the properties of mixtures, composition and consumer reviews.

Product benefits

Goat's milk protein, unlike the cow's counterpart, forms a more tender clot when curdling in the stomach of the crumbs, which is much easier to digest without irritating the mucous membrane. Due to this property and the content of beta-casein, mixtures based on goat's milk are digested relatively quickly and do not provoke the appearance of intestinal disorders and allergies. However, goat milk protein is not a remedy that relieves allergic reactions, so such a diet is suitable or not.crumbs, you can determine only by trying it. Allergic babies need to introduce the product gradually, observing the condition of the skin.

Goat's milk is much closer in composition to human milk than cow's milk. Thanks to this, such food is well suited for babies, without causing problems with digestion. Quite often, pediatricians prescribe mixtures of goat milk for crumbs with dysbacteriosis. Reviews of most mothers note a significant change in the well-being of the baby for the better. Nutrition based on goat's milk restores the intestinal microflora and improves the functionality of the stomach and intestines.

The benefits of goat's milk for a baby are not limited to this. It contains three times more amino acids, such as taurine, than in the bovine counterpart. This also makes goat's milk-based nutrition a good substitute for breastfeeding. The vital amino acids included in its composition help the baby's organs to form properly and significantly improve immunity.

Composition

Goat's milk in its natural form, despite all its positive characteristics, is absolutely not suitable for the diet of a toddler in the first year of his life. That is why baby food companies make formulas based on goat's milk. They are artificially close in composition to the maternal counterpart and are called adapted. The complex process of adapting children's products to goat milk is more successful than to cow analogue. Feeding from cow's milk is oftencauses problems with digestive processes and troubles in the form of allergic reactions. In this regard, some companies have taken goat's milk as a basis. But in mixtures, its content does not exceed 45-46%, and the rest of the substances are specialized additives that bring the composition of useful elements closer to mother's milk. These include the following components:

• probiotics that support a favorable composition of microflora and regulate the activity of the gastrointestinal tract, including the baby's stool, making it softer;
• nucleotides, great for restoring and strengthening the immune system;
• vitamin and mineral elements aimed at meeting the needs of a rapidly growing baby's body: vitamins A, B12, C, D, E, potassium, cob alt, iodine, folic acid and others.

You should know that goat's milk based formula contains 57% less lactose than other dairy based baby foods. In some cases, they are becoming an indispensable food option for babies with individual lactose intolerance.

Benefits

All milk contains two types of proteins: hard-to-digest casein proteins and easily digestible whey proteins. Cow's milk mainly contains caseins, for example, alpha-c1-casein, which causes adverse allergic effects. The main advantage of children's products from goat's milk is the predominance of whey protein in the composition, so this food is less processed and does not provoke allergies.

Research has proven a number of unique advantages that goat milk formulas have in comparison with cow analogues. For example, here are some of them:

• goat's milk consists of a more homogeneous mixture of small fat droplets, so it is almost completely absorbed;
• when interacting with the gastric juice of the crumbs, food based on goat's milk forms looser and smaller curd clots that are easier for a fragile body to digest;
• does not contain certain proteins that cause allergic reactions, such as atopic dermatitis, which can cause asthma as you grow older;
• this mixture contains a lot of natural vitamin A, which improves visual functions and skin condition, and vitamin element PP, which affects oxidative processes in a growing body;
• product goes through fewer processing steps to make the blend adaptable.

Assortment

What goat milk formulas are available on the Russian market? This question is relevant for many mothers. Today on the shelves of baby food in Russia you can see the products of such brands:

• "Nanny" (New Zealand);
• Cabrita (Holland);
• "MD mil SP goat" (Spain);
• "MAMAKO'" (Spain).

Cabrita and MD mil SP Goat blends have a 60:40 ratio of whey protein to casein, making them whey. Nutrition for babies "Mamako" has a ratio of the same parameters equal to 50:50, thereforeit occupies an intermediate niche between casein and whey mixtures. But in Nanny products, the ratio of whey proteins to casein is 20:80, so they are considered casein.

Nanny Baby Food

The plant built by the company is drying New Zealand goat milk and producing baby food. Nanny goat milk formulas are made from dried milk powder.

The brand is represented by these types of formulas adapted to the nutrition of babies and made from goat's milk:

• "Nanny" from birth to one year;
• "Nanny" 3 for babies over 1 year old;
• Nenii No. 2 with prebiotics (designed for ages 6-12 months);
• Nenii 1 with prebiotics (recommended for babies 0-6 months).

All Nanny baby formulas are free of palm oils, demineralized whey, restructured proteins, colorants, sugar, GMOs and flavors, according to the manufacturer.

MD Mil SP Goat Blends

The brand started selling on the Russian market in 2007. Until 2011, products were manufactured at the Dutch company Laypack B. V. Currently, the production of baby food is produced in Spain. Now in Russia you can buy such milk formulas on goat milk:

• "MD mil SP Goat" series 1. For feeding babies from birth to six months.
• "MD mil SP Goat" series 2. Designed for feeding babies 6-12 months.
• "MD mil SP Goat" series 3. Designed to feed babies over one year old.

Cabrita Blends

The formula of each type of product has a specially designed composition, adapted to the baby at a certain stage of development. Baby food based on goat milk "Cabrita" includes a wide assortment and age range.

According to the manufacturer, formulas do not contain cow's milk. They are enriched with probiotics, nucleotides, omega acids, and a unique triglyceride complex.

Mamako' Mixes

Spanish corporation ILAS S. A. has developed a product line for both he althy babies and babies with low weight or special dietary nutritional needs. Goat milk mixtures "MAMAKO'" are used for mixed or artificial feeding of children. They are recommended by dieticians and pediatricians for babies at increased risk of developing food allergies and those who cannot tolerate cow's milk. Baby food includes these types of adapted formulas:

• "MAMAKO' 1" for babies from 0 to 6 months;
• "MAMAKO' 2" for babies from six months to a year;
• "MAMAKO' 3" with the addition of bifidobacteria for children over 12 months.

Porridge "MAMAKO'" for babies

ILAS S. A. in addition to mixtures, it also offers a wide range of nutrition for the first feeding of he althy crumbs and allergic babies. It includes baby cereals with goat milk and dairy-free cereals. The line hasmono-cereal diet food developed for the prevention of diathesis: buckwheat, corn and rice porridge from 4 months. They are suitable for babies who are prone to allergies, but in the absence of reactions to goat milk protein.

Multi-component baby food with fruit, vegetable and fruit supplements is recommended by the manufacturer to expand the menu of babies from 5-6 months: cereals from cereals, corn with pumpkin and apricot, wheat with pear and banana and other types.

According to the manufacturer's information, all cereals are developed with the direct participation of the Russian Institute of Nutrition Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences.

Prices

Food for babies on goat's milk has its drawbacks. It is not available in every store. Cow's milk products are cheaper than goat's milk formulas. The price of some of the products in question is shown below:

• "MD mil SP goat" 400 g - about 800 rubles;
• Kabrita Gold 400 g – 670-750 rubles;
• Kabrita Gold 800 g - about 1350 rubles;
• "MAMAKO'" 400 g - 640-680 rubles;
• "MAMAKO'" 800 g - 1040-1150 rubles;
• "Nanny" 400 g - 800-900 rubles.

Reviews

A large number of women who have crumbs with digestive problems or a tendency to allergic reactions have tried to give their children mixtures of goat's milk. Feedback from moms is mostly positive.

They note that when replacing baby food from cowmilk on a mixture of goat analogue there were favorable changes. The crumbs improved digestion, frequent regurgitation stopped, problems with constipation or diarrhea disappeared. Most often, babies stop worrying about bloating and colic.

Some babies have lost their food allergy rash. There are, however, also such children to whom the mixture came up, but the diathesis remained. But for the most part, mothers described only the positive qualities of the listed mixtures for babies. Of the negative parameters, consumers noted only the cost, which is higher than that of similar food from cow's milk.