I understand that breast milk contains about 1.3g protein, 4.2g fat, and 7g carbohydrate per 100ml.
I also understand that cow's milk is much less sweet and contains much more protein:
cow's milk:
3.7g/1.8g fat full-fat/semi-skimmed
3.5g protein
4.7g carbohydrate
Anyway, as I understand it most children in the UK are fed breast milk or formula till one, then cow's milk. Which I found quite straightforward really - lots of cheap fresh milk, nothing to think about unless you are lactose-intolerant.
I now live in Indonesia and straight cow's milk is quite rare but there are a vast array of brightly coloured boxes of powdered milks which are popular up to the age of five or so. These tend to be similar to breast milk in that they contain vast amount of sugar, which is much cheaper for the manufacturer, not to mention palm oil and such like. I looked online for UK 'growing up' milk and it seems to be quite similarly full of cheap crap for high profits, Aptamil 2+ is palm oil added lactose, etc., and they hilariously want £10.50 for it
I did find one box in the shop here which was just milk + vitamins, against several dozen which were milk + palm oil + sugar.
Following on from that there's a very high rate of diabetes, incredibly sweet tea, and so on.
Any thoughts on this subject?