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Nutritional Inferiority of Filled versus Natural Milk with Special Reference to Fatty Constituents¹

Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station 77843

ABSTRACT

Filled milk has different physical, chemical, and nutritional qualities than natural milk. Coconut oil vrhen substituted for milk fat is dangerous and unwholesome because of the incidence of toxic symptoms, especially when ingested with unbalanced diets by the very young. It also contains a serious imbalance in the kinds of fatty acids probably required for optimum maintenance, growth, and development. Other vegetable oils have none of the quickly available short- or medium-chain-length acids, but do contain far too much poly-unsaturated acid, which could have deleterious effects.

Finally, none of the substituted oils have cholesterol, which may be necessary in the diet of the young for the development of tolerance to dietary cholesterol later in life.

¹ Presented at the armual meeting of the National Dairy Council, January 28, 1969, at Cleveland, Ohio.