Dietetic foods for infants and young children

Abstract

Growth is associated with increases in weight, development indicates the progressive changes in tissues and organs functions. Nutritional factors during early development have short-term effects on growth but also exert longer-term effects. Dietetic foods are intended to satisfy particular nutritional requirements of specific groups of populations. The foodstuffs intended to satisfy the nutritional requirements of infants and young children are dietetic foods for infants and young children including infant formulae and follow-on formulae.

Rast i razvoj deteta su asocirani procesi, dešavaju se paralelno i zajedno čine deo kvalitetnih promena mladog organizma. Kako će se, u ovako osetljivom periodu, odvijati svi procesi zavisi i od hrane koja se konzumira, odnosno da li se svi neophodni nutrimenti unose u pravo vreme u potrebnim količinama. Dijetetska hrana koja je namenjena bebama i maloj deci obuhvata infant formule, follow on formule i hranu za malu decu. Sve komponente koje se dodaju dijetetskoj hrani moraju biti strogo kontrolisane pozitivnim listama određenih direktiva.