infant formula

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Noun

infant formula (countable and uncountable, plural infant formulas or infant formulae or infant formulæ)

1. A manufactured food simulating human breast milk, designed to be fed to babies and infants under twelve months of age.

   Synonyms: baby formula, formula

   Coordinate terms: milk replacer, milk substitute

   • 1888, Pye Henry Chavasse, Wife and Mother: Or, Information for Every Woman‎^[1], page 272:

     The great desideratum, in devising an infant's formula for food, is to make it, until he be nine months old, to resemble as much as possible a mother's own milk.

   • 1944, Rocky Mountain Medical Journal, volume 41, page 291:

     No extra ingredients to calculate, because it's a complete infant formula.

   • 2004, Enterobacter Sakazakii and Other Microorganisms in Powdered Infant Formula‎^[2], Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations:

     Reconstituted powdered infant formula is probably a common vehicle in transmitting Salmonella to infants, given its major role in the infant diet, but contamination of formula is more likely to occur from the preparer or preparation environment than from the manufacturing process.

   • 2007, Don M. Roberton, Practical Paediatrics‎^[3]:

     Health professionals and caregivers are faced with a bewildering array of infant formulas for non-breastfed infants.

   • 2018, Kristin Lawless, Formerly known as food, →ISBN, page 85:

     Before the early 1900s, mothers who couldn't breast-feed for medical reasons didn't have the option of infant formula and often used wet nurses, or women who were employed to breast-feed children other than their own.

Coordinate terms

• milk replacer (the analogue for nonhuman animals, especially livestock)

Translations

food simulating human milk

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 嬰兒配方奶粉 / 婴儿配方奶粉 (jing¹ ji⁴ pui³ fong¹ naai⁵ fan²), BB奶粉 (bi⁴ bi¹ naai⁵ fan²)

  Mandarin: 嬰兒配方奶粉 / 婴儿配方奶粉 (yīng'ér pèifāng nǎifěn)

• Finnish: äidinmaidonkorvike (fi), äidinmaidonvastike (fi)
• Italian: latte artificiale m
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: morsmelkerstatning c, morsmjølkerstatning c

  Nynorsk: morsmjølkerstatning f

• Portuguese: fórmula infantil f, leite artificial m
• Spanish: leche maternizada f, leche de fórmula f, leche infantil f
• Swedish: modersmjölksersättning (sv) c, bröstmjölksersättning (sv) c
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: bebek formülü (tr)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

See also

• bottlefeeding

Further reading

• infant formula on Wikipedia.Wikipedia