Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-21 | Page 4 | Canned, Fresh Milk Are Not Exactly Alike

Canned, Fresh Exactly Alike Br MYRTLE MEYER ELDRED Moat babie make the change from an evaporated milk formula to a freeh milk formula without the least difficulty. But in making any well chsnga il la advisable to have loml knowledge of the difference between the two milks. Both contain all the food element! ele-ment! of milk. But oecauea of iu j long cooking process the evaporated milk loses some of iti vitamin C content. This must be made up In the diet by the daily uee of some fruit rich in this element, orange Juice or tomato juice being the' most popular for Infants. j Fresh Milk Richer I This same long cooking deprives! the milk of about half IU water and to give it the approximate vajue of whole milk as much water must be added to it as there is milk. The cooking changes the form of the protein and makes this "curd" more easily digested. By another process the fat Is evenly distributed throughout the milk, giving it its characteristically deep, creamy color. col-or. This often gives rise to the mother's ""belief" that " eiauuiaied milk is richer than fresh milk. The opposite is the truth. Our leaflet on "Feeding From Two to Nine Months" may be had for the usual self-addressed and S-cent stamped envelope sent to Myrtle Meyer Eldred, care of the your baby and mine department of The Salt Lake Telegram. Mrs. H. D. wants very much to change from an evaporated to a fresh milk formula. "We now have a cow and if fresh milk can be made to agree I want to use it. Baby weighs 23 pounds, is fit months old and takes a formula of 314 ounces of evaporated, plus one tablespoon of sugar and 41? ounces of water In each bottle." Boil Vigorously Try the fresh milk. Boil it vigorously vigor-ously for three minutes on top of the stove to make the protein easier to digest. Skim some of the cream if the fresh milk is very rich. A duplicate of your present formula in fresh milk would be seven ounces of fresh to one ounce of water and one tablespoon of sugar In each of four bottles. I'd begin to decrease the sugar content and work toward whole, undiluted, unsweetened milk.