Anyone know of a Parve Infant Formula? Not Dairy Equipment?

Gold Member Joined: Dec 25 2008 Posts: 2041

let me rephrase. breast milk can be hypoallergenic. in a mother who is eating no allergens, it is hypoallergenic.

I have no doubt that in areas that have milk banks, they also know who among the donors is off of various allegens. the one thing that is very clear from all the research I have seen is that using artificial milk of any description is more likely to set off or complicate allergies in infants. Obviously this may not be a practical solution however, if the answer is as simple as a mother avoiding certain foods, (or getting milk from a bank that knows who is eating what) then the benefits reaped far outweigh the detractions.

Diamond Member Joined: Nov 30 2006 Posts: 2597

Only prosobee POWDER is not DE. Not RTF (and I agree with all the previous posters that it should not be done for kashrut reasons).

of the non-dairy formulas, only Alimentum RTF is corn syrup free, and it uses table sugar--sweeter than lactose or corn syrup. One of the organic ones uses brown rice syrup: very expensive, and may have something wrong with it (contamination? Can't remember). Glucose syrup is closer in sweetness to lactose so is preferred worldwide for dairy free formulas. We make it from corn, in Europe they use corn and wheat, but same principle. Decades ago, people used to mix homemade formula with evaporated milk and Karo. Buy Nutramigen in Europe and it says glucose syrup on the label. It is not HFCS which is fructose-glucose, sweet like table sugar.

A non-kosher enzyme is used to hydrolyze the proteins in Nutramigen, but opinions differ on whether that makes it truly treif or not (in terms of washing etc). It's an AYLOR. The LBD used to list Milupa Prejomin as kosher in its guide, and that used a similar extract.