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Formulas Made from Cow's Milk Provide Infants' Needs for Proteins and Amino Acids

Research Adviser, Evaporated Milk Association, Chicago, Illinois

ABSTRACT

Much progress has been made in recent years in determining the quantitative needs of the normal infant for protein and the essential amino acids. The purpose of this paper is to review the findings and opinions of competent investigators on the needs of the infant and to determine how these needs are satisfied by human milk and by formulas prepared from cow's milk.

It is a more difficult problem to measure the requirements of the infant for a nutrient than to determine the requirements of a rat. There are more factors that cause humans to differ in their ability to digest and absorb food. It is advisable, therefore, that once the minimum requirements for protein or other nutrients have been estimated on a selected group of supposedly average human beings of whatever age, a percentage should be added for an optimum dietary intake.

Protein Requirements; Protein Intakes

More work has been done with adults than with babies on minimum protein requirements.