Women are urged to breast-feed their babies for a number of reasons. One of the most important is that mother’s milk has a unique fatty-acid composition that increases the amount of energy and essential minerals that the baby absorbs from its food. 

But what if breast-feeding is not an option?

In that case, infant formula offers a solution, but there are many such formulas on the market and their compositions can differ, for instance in the fat blend that is used. It is important that this be as similar to human breast milk as possible.

Betapol® is a vegetable fat blend that has been specially developed for infant formulas. It has a special triglyceride structure that matches the one found in mother’s milk so closely that it’s possible to also give bottle-fed babies the same kind of healthy, nutritional head-start as breast-fed infants.