RFP Infant Formula

Helping children receive the right nutrients, at the right times is imperative when it comes to optimising sleep cycles, and energy through the day.

Ask any parent, and getting their child’s sleep ‘right’ is a high priority when it comes to adjusting to the significant changes that come with being a parent.

Human milk has been shown to alter its composition, depending on time of day.

Human milk is a powerful form of chrononutrition, formulated by evolutionary processes to communicate time-of-day information to infants. Human milk contains higher levels of cortisol and activity-promoting amino acids during the day, to promote alertness, feeding behaviour, and catabolic processes in infants. Night milk contains high levels of melatonin and tryptophan to foster sleep, relax digestion, and support cell restoration.

Helping children receive the right nutrients, at the right times is imperative when it comes to optimising sleep cycles, and energy through the day.

Increasing tryptophan in nutritional powders has a significant benefit on sleep/wake cycles. This is due to both producing a similar plasma level of tryptophan to that of breast-fed infants there is a well-established link between intake of tryptophan in breast milk, and sleep patterns of breast-fed infants. This is based on the synthesis of melatonin from tryptophan through the tryptophan/serotonin pathway.

α-lactalbumin is a protein that is rich in tryptophan. Tryptophan is one of the most limited amino acids in food proteins. In human milk, the concentrations of α-lactalbumin are much larger than cow milk or whey-dominant formula.

NiMera’ two separate powders, for day and night provide lower levels of tryptophan in the day time formula, and much higher levels in the night time formula due to it being rich in α-lactalbumin . This equates to more than the required minimum levels.

Protein totals are within the ranges in both the day and night, with the night time formula being slightly higher protein. The quantities are in line with research which has shown improved sleep/wake cycles in infants, and allowing for the identified lag time, and circadian rhythm of tryptophan-melatonin pathways

NiMera Childrens Nutritional Powder provides an option for parents that closely takes into account the changing formulation of human breast milk. Through making both a day and night nutritional powders available, with evidence showing the positive impact this has on sleep patterns by providing the right nutrition at the right time.

NiMera has been developed to ensure that they comply with all relevant standards in the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code.