Composition of Milk

Composition of Milk

Human Milk and Cows Milk have different compositions.

Milk for Premature Babies is also very different.

For this reason “humanizing cows milk” was coined in our time.

This a very difficult if you look at the table below.

If babies were fed only on Cows Milk, they used to develop fits in infancy due to inappropriate Ca/PO4 ratio and became mentally retarded.

Milk companies were made to pay and they now provide very little information due to this fear of prosecution.

Milk Industry is a very powerful Industry and they are very rich.

Each country has its own regulations for Infant Formula.

In summary cows milk has excess of Sodium, Potassium, Calcium. Phosphorus and Protein and Vitamin D.

It has less calories and Vitamin A.

The bottom line is one cannot substitute cows milk for breast milk.

This applies for at least 3 years to five years.

That is why there are formulas for different (one, three and five years).

Cows milk is deficient in vital unsaturated FATS that are necessary for brain development.

Milk packet should have a breakdown of all its components (I could glance at the list and reject during my time) and please see whether it is humanized or not.

Mind you humanized milk is very expensive.

Wikipedia has no breakdown of any of the commercial milks products and there is no articles in the so called FREE WEB.

Comparing milks (per cup)[65][66]

Nutrient	Human Milk	Cow's Milk (3.25% fat)	Goat's Milk
Calories (Kcal)	172	146	168
Water (g)	215	215	212
Protein (g)	2.5	7.9	8.7
Fat (g)	10.8	7.9	10.1
Saturated fat (g)	4.9	4.6	6.5
Monounsaturated fat (g)	4.1	2.0	2.7
Polyunsaturated fat (g)	1.2	0.5	0.4
Omega-3 fatty acids (mg)	128	183	97.6
Omega-6 fatty acids (mg)	920	293	266
Cholesterol (mg)	34.4	24.4	26.8
Carbohydrate (g)	17.0	11.0	10.9
Sugars (g)	17.0	11.0	10.9
Vitamin A (IU)	522	249	483
Vitamin C (mg)	12.3	0	3.2
Vitamin D (IU)	9.8	97.6	29.3
Vitamin E (mg)	0.2	0.1	0.2
Vitamin K (mcg)	0.7	0.5	0.7
Thiamin (mg)	0.0	0.1	0.1
Calcium (mg)	79	276	327
Iron (mg)	0.07	0.07	0.12
Phosphorus (mg)	34.4	222	271
Potassium (mg)	125	349	498
Sodium (mg)	42	98	122