Artificial Milk for Babies and Novel Oils
Content taken from pages 67-69 of The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts are Bad for Business In the 1860s, a German chemist, Justus von Liebig* (1803-1873) often called ‘the father of modern nutrition’ invented the perfect infant food’. It was made of wheat flour, cows’ milk, malt flour and bicarbonate of potash. Though patented, commercialised and delivered in liquid form, it did not sell well. A powdered form was then developed with some of thecontinue reading…










