A bit shocked about the amount of sugar in formula?

[FloraPosteschild]

Sorry, I guess this may have been discussed over and over, but today I was planning on buying some tins of SMA for Ds2, as I have milk tokens to spend and thought it might be useful rather than putting him on cows milk once I start dropping the odd feed.

Mum suggested getting the soya type, as it might be better - our family has a history of dairy related eczema, asthma etc.

I picked up the tin and read the ingredients, and the first was 'dried glucose syrup'.

Please can anyone tell me why there has to be sugar as the main ingredient in baby milk?

I didn't buy it as I was a bit

Sorry if I'm being thick here but it seemed a bit odd.

It would taste like shit else I guess
dunno I've tasted formula and it is rank and that is With sugar in it

It is just a manmade 'cow's milk fat molecule' based fuid full of the nutrients needed for a baby so I would have thought they need to add something to make it taste better

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i'm sorry i don't know how to put this, sorry if it comes out wrong

milk has lots of sugar in it, that's how babies live on it. anything trying to be like milk has to have lots of sugar added.

i don't know anything about soya milk but i would have a discussion with the gp perhaps before switching a child this young onto soya milk? hope someone more knowledgeable comes along.

I haven't tasted breast milk, might try it later...

I drink soya milk and they add apple juice concentrate, which I think is a bit less dodgy than glucose syrup, but I could be wrong.

I agree it would taste awful without. But am glad I can Bf knowing what goes into it iyswim.

Choosy - don't worry, he's 9 months old, I intend to Bf for the next year or so but occasionally want to give him a cup/bottle with something else in it, so he gets some experience of other stuff and also because I would find it convenient sometimes.

I shan't give him actual soya milk yet though. I was just looking at the soya based formula (which seems to be sugar based!)

Lol, Fio

Why is there not a milk emoticon?

wtf else would they put in it?

sugar is a great source of energy and calories
breast milk contains a lot more sugar than cow's milk so they have to make up the difference somehow.

have you considered expressing? or goat's milk formula?

Sugar isn't actually that bad anyway IMO. Sweeteners and thelike are bad but not just sugar.Apple juice is sweet as the apple has naturally occuring sugars in it. Still sugar.

Brastmilk is very sweet too.

Soya formula not recommended (except by manufacturers ) for under 2's, so not a good plan at all I'm afraid.

I'd be more bothered about some of the otehr ingredients tbh.

Most formula's are based loosely around what is in breastmilk just in different quanitites as they have to add a bit more of this to get enough of that and so on.

What age are you planning on dropping the odd feed? It might be easier to just go straight to cows milk, afetr all formula is cows milk too.

Just give regular cow's milk.It's not a weird processed thing like formula at least.

No need to shout at me Mrs. B. I might be ignorant but I hoped I didn't merit a wtf with my post.

The cows milk version had dried milk as the primary ingredient and I was confused about it.

CSWS thanks for the heads up. I have not got a clue about formula.

VS, am weaning slowly but still Bf most of the time, night and day. It is totally random so not sure which feed exactly just I like being able to shove a bottle/cup at him if I can't find somewhere to Bf easily/comfortably.

I find expressing hellish but where (tf) do you get goats milk formula?

Don't think you can - wasn't it deemed insufficiently nutritious and withdrawn.

Oh...thanks Lizs

I was kind of liking the fact that we could get dairy free because of the baby cows thing too, so not certain I'd want to get goats anyway.

~I've gone back to soya after years of being lazy. I used to be vegan.

sorry flora, I am unusually grumpy today and you didn't deserve a tf - my bad.

goat formukla in Waitrose, though I'd missed the bit that says '1-3yrs' and thought it was a from-6m follow-on type.

Ahhhh it's sweet Mrs B.

I know you're lovely really!

Thanks for the link.

Natural milk has got a different sugar, lactose, in it. Lactose is half made of glucose. So that's ok then.

Soya formula is not really a 'milk' so has no milk sugar (ie lactose) in it. The glucose is in it to replace it and also to make it palatable...but soya formula shd only be used if the baby cannot be breastfed or given regular cows milk formula because of allergy. Hope this helps.

Thanks Tiktok. That actually explains what I wanted to know, very clearly.