Lipid

• Provide half of energy of human milk

  • Vary from mother to mother & within a feeding
  • Fat value: Foremilk < Hindmilk
• > 200 fatty acid types

  • 98 – 99% strategically packaged at milk fat globules [decrease clumping + increase absorption]
• Influenced by maternal lipid nutrition

  • Low fat diet (w/ adequate calories) = Increase medium-chain FA

  • Cod liver oil supplement (DHA) = More DHA
• Cholesterol

  • Essential component of cell membrane & myelin

  • Breastfed infant: Higher cholesterol intake + Higher serum cholesterol