infant formula

Definitions

A manufactured food simulating human breast milk, designed to be fed to babies and infants under twelve months of age.

countable, uncountable

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Examples

“The great desideratum, in devising an infant's formula for food, is to make⟳ it, until he be nine months old, to resemble⟳ as much as possible a mother's own⟳ milk.”

“No extra ingredients to calculate⟳, because it's a complete⟳ infant formula.”

“Reconstituted powdered infant formula is probably a common vehicle in transmitting Salmonella to infants, given its major role in the infant diet, but contamination of formula is more likely to occur⟳ from the preparer or preparation environment than from the manufacturing process⟳.”

“Health professionals and caregivers are faced with a bewildering array of infant formulas for non-breastfed infants.”

“Before the early 1900s, mothers who couldn't breast-feed for medical reasons didn't have⟳ the option of infant formula and often used wet⟳ nurses, or women who were employed to breast-feed children other than their own⟳.”

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