Avoiding Hidden Sugars, Get Them Out!

When you are planning on which formula milk to give to your kids, do you really read the nutrition facts or just take it from the shelf? Here is what I read from www.healthtoday.net

Even when a food product bears the claim 'low sugar' or 'sugar-free', do your own homework and take a look at the food label. The nutrition facts panel tells you how much sugar you are getting and where can you find the hidden sugars.

Serving Size info
- check the serving size. If you are drinking more than 250ml (if the serving size indicate 200ml), you will be consuming more sugars.

Carbohydrate
-Total carbohydrate tells you how much carbs are there in the item, including sugars. For ready-to-drink beverages, sugars must be listed in gram (g), the lower is the better. One teaspoon of white table sugar is equal to about 4 g.

Fibre
-In Malaysia, dietary fibre is listed separately. It is not mandatory to list dietary fibre.

Ingredients
-Listed by weight, from most to least, the ingredient list tells you what is in your food. Look for hidden sugars.

List of hidden sugar
-Sucrose
-Maltose
-Dextrose
-Fructose
-Honey
-Corn or maize syrup
-Corn syrup solids
-Glucose syrup
-Molasses
-Raw/brown sugar
-Treacle
-Hydrolyzed/modified starch
-Concentrated fruit juice
Carbohydrate (of which sugars)

Did you know that Lactose-milk sugar- is the only naturally-occurring sugar in milk. A standard serving of lactose in milk is 39g per 100g of powder, or about 10-12 g per serving. Anything higher than this signifies the presence of added sugars.

Basilic Milk Dispenser

I fall in love with Basilic Milk Dispenser this type...

But was unable to find it..Hence, I bought these...

Cow's Milk

Since I don't manage to breastfeed my son, I have to give him formula milk..I give him ENFALAC A+. A few days, I found some rashes on his body...Thought that it is due to allergy, I change to ENFALAC Lactose Intolerance. Not rashes found however, he doesn't like the formula very much compared to previous one. Hence resulted in difficulty to "buang air besar".

So we went to Hospital Pantai. When I informed her what happen, she start to asked me a few question such as drinks that took during my pregnancy and breastfeed time. She said that what we drink during that time flow back to breastmilk. Since I drink anlene and Dutch Lady during that time, it should not be any problem with my son taking cow's milk. So she ask us to start back with ENFALAC A+.

Back at home, we did what the paed advice and fortunately no rashes anymore. The rashes previously he had might be caused by switching from breastmilk to formula milk.

Im not so sure how true is this or it just a coincident, but no harm in trying right??...so pregnant ladies out there, maybe you can start drinking cow's milk so that u wont have any trouble buying formula milk for ur baby.