Best Milk for Picky Eaters from Newborns to Over 3 Years Old in 2023

During the 0-3 years stage, children often face picky eating due to their delicate digestive system, susceptibility to illnesses, or incorrect parental care, impacting their psychology negatively. Using milk for picky eaters is one of the optimal measures to help your child eat well, maintain healthy digestion, gain weight quickly, and keep up with growth trends. So, what criteria should milk for picky eaters meet, which type is the best, and what should be noted when using it? Moms, find out in this article!

Beware of Dangerous Consequences of Prolonged Picky Eating in Children

Prolonged picky eating in children is not uncommon, but if it persists, it can lead to serious consequences affecting the child's development, such as:

• Delayed Physical Development: Prolonged picky eating deprives the child's body of essential nutrients for growth, resulting in stunted growth and being underweight compared to well-nourished children. Furthermore, the deficiency of certain crucial vitamins also affects the development of various organs in the child's body, such as Vitamin A deficiency causing dry skin, hair loss, dry eyes, and night blindness; deficiency of Vitamin D and Calcium causing rickets,...

• Delayed Intellectual Development: Prolonged picky eating leads to a deficiency of essential nutrients such as Omega 3, Omega 6, DHA, ARA, Iodine, making the child less intelligent and less agile than other children.

• Immune System Decline: Children with prolonged picky eating often have weakened immunity, prone to frequent illnesses due to deficiencies in essential immune-supporting nutrients such as zinc, selenium, iron, vitamin D, C, etc. Common issues include digestive and respiratory problems like sore throat, pneumonia, tonsillitis, diarrhea, constipation, digestive disorders, and more.

• Emotional Quotient (EQ) Reduction: Children who are disinterested or lazy in eating tend to be slow, passive, less socially engaged, and lose interest in their surroundings. Consequently, this group of children may have a low Emotional Quotient (EQ), which can gradually lead to conditions like autism and depression.

Why Should You Supplement Milk for Picky Eaters?

Milk is an essential daily 'food' that quickly and effectively improves picky eating in children. According to nutrition experts, supplementing the right type of milk for picky eaters brings many benefits, such as:

• Provides Adequate Nutrients: Milk is a food that contains a diverse range of nutrients, ensuring that the child's body receives sufficient nutrition, gains weight evenly, prevents malnutrition, and promotes healthy development.
• Supports Improvement in Picky Eating: Milk for picky eaters is often supplemented with various specialized ingredients that stimulate the child's appetite, improve taste, support healthy digestion, and enhance absorption, such as zinc, B-vitamins, prebiotics, etc.

4 Important Criteria for Choosing Milk for Picky Eaters

Currently, there are hundreds of types of powdered milk for babies in the market, both domestic and imported, making mothers unsure how to choose. To select the right milk for a picky eater, consider the following 4 criteria!

Milk containing ingredients that make children eat well and have a healthy digestion

Mothers should prioritize choosing milk with nutrients beneficial for digestion, enhancing absorption, and stimulating the child's appetite, such as:

• • Zinc: This nutrient participates in the enzyme conversion process, regenerating intestinal mucosal cells. Therefore, adequate zinc supplementation helps the child's digestive system function more smoothly.

• B-Vitamins: Vitamin B1 stimulates the child's appetite; vitamin B6 helps metabolize protein, sugar, and fat more efficiently; vitamin B9 is good for the child's mental health and emotions; vitamin B12 nurtures beneficial bacteria, enhancing digestive function, etc.

• Probiotics, Prebiotics: Various oligosaccharides (Lactulose, Raffinose, GOS, etc.), Bifidobacterium longum BB536 probiotics are nutrients beneficial for the intestines, maintaining a balance in the microbial system, preventing diarrhea, constipation, etc.

Milk provides essential nutrients for better absorption and improved eating habits

When buying milk for a picky eater, moms should choose a type that contains all 4 essential nutrient groups, including protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals. Nutritionally balanced milk helps the child's body digest and absorb nutrients more easily, thereby improving picky eating.

Milk from reputable brands

In parenting experience-sharing groups, many moms complain about buying fake or low-quality milk, which seriously affects their child's health. Therefore, when purchasing milk to improve a child's picky eating, moms should choose products from reputable brands and buy them from official distribution channels.

Specifically, moms should choose milk from well-known brands that have been in the market for a long time, meet production standards, product quality (FDA, GMP, etc.), and receive positive feedback from many customers. To buy genuine milk, moms can visit large mother and baby stores (Mytour, Concung, Bibomart, etc.) or order directly from the exclusive product distribution company.

 Milk suitable for the child's age

Currently, most milk types on the market are clearly divided into lines suitable for each stage of a child's development. For example:

• Milk for infants aged 0-6 months often has a composition similar to breast milk
• Milk for children over 6 months will increase in quantity and supplement additional nutrients to help with height development, brain function, and immune system enhancement, etc.

Therefore, moms should pay attention to the age information on the packaging to choose the right milk type that helps the child's body absorb maximum nutrients and ensures safety during use.

The taste buds of picky eaters are also harder to please, so moms need to choose an easily drinkable type of milk. Typically, for children under 3 years old, moms should choose milk with a mild taste similar to breast milk, and for those over 3 years old, milk with a slightly sweet taste, strawberry or vanilla flavor, etc.

Morinaga – 'Cool Digestion' milk, specialized for picky eaters

Top milk options for picky eaters that moms can consider

If moms are wondering, 'What milk should I give to a picky eater?' consider trying Morinaga milk from Japan. 

Morinaga ranks among the top milks for digestion, perfect for picky eaters. Especially, for over 12 years in the Vietnamese market, Morinaga has been favored and loved by many moms, known as the 'Cool vegetable' milk line for beloved babies.

Moreover, Morinaga meets all 4 criteria for choosing milk for picky eaters:

• Morinaga contains many ingredients that help children enjoy their food, enhance digestion, such as Zinc, B-group Vitamins, prebiotics Bifidus (Lactose, Raffinose, Duphalac, GOS), and Bifidobacterium longum BB536 probiotics,…
• Morinaga contains a diverse range of nutrients in all 4 essential nutrient groups for the child's development.

• Morinaga is produced by Morinaga Milk Industry Co., Ltd – A leading Japanese company in the production and business of milk and milk-related products.

• Morinaga has 3 milk lines with ingredients and flavors suitable for children at different ages, namely Hagukumi, Chilmil, Kodomil. Most moms report that Morinaga milk is easy to drink, and children are very cooperative and interested in the milk's flavors.

Morinaga Hagukumi – Milk for picky eaters from 0 to 6 months old

For babies from birth to under 6 months who are picky eaters, moms can consider using Morinaga No. 1 Hagukumi milk. This milk line has outstanding advantages such as:

• Milk contains Bifidus prebiotics (Lactose and Raffinose) to balance the microbiota, enhance digestion, absorption, and prevent constipation.
• Milk supplemented with Zinc; Vitamin B1, B6, B12 helps stimulate the baby's appetite and makes them eat more deliciously.
• Additional ingredients like AHA/ARA, Calcium, Vitamin D3 contribute to superior development of the brain, vision, and height; Lactoferrin enhances the immune system.
• Morinaga Hagukumi has a mild taste similar to mother's milk, suitable for babies from 0-6 months old.

Below is a detailed guide on how to use and the dosage of Morinaga Hagukumi milk:

• Step 1: Wash hands and baby's milk utensils thoroughly.
• Step 2: Sterilize the milk bottle and pacifier with boiling water for 5 – 10 minutes, then let it drain.
• Step 3: Use the spoon in the box and take the exact amount of powder needed for the bottle.
• Step 4: Calculate the total amount of warm water (70 degrees Celsius) needed to mix the milk, then pour about ½ of that water into the bottle.
• Step 5: Mom installs the pacifier and tightens it, then shakes it well to dissolve the milk.
• Step 6: Mom opens the bottle cap and adds the remaining warm water.
• Step 7: Mom reattaches the pacifier, tightens it again, shakes it gently to dissolve the milk, then quickly cools it to body temperature (about 36 degrees Celsius) and lets the baby suckle.

Recommended dosage of HaguKumi milk for babies from 0-6 months old

Morinaga Chilmil – Milk for picky eaters from 6 months to 3 years old

Morinaga Chilmil No. 2 is milk designed for picky eaters aged 6 months to 36 months. The distinctive features of Morinaga Chilmil compared to other milk brands on the market include:

• Morinaga Chilmil contains Duphalac, Raffinose to enhance Bifidus probiotics, support digestion, increase absorption, thereby improving picky eating in children.
• This type of milk is also supplemented with Zinc; Vitamin B1, B6, B2, B12 to stimulate the taste, making it more delicious for the baby.
• Similar to the Hagukumi line, Chilmil is also enhanced with AHA/ARA components for brain development, vision; Calcium, Vitamin D3 for height development; Lactoferrin enhances the immune system, and has a mild taste suitable for the baby's palate.

Below is a detailed guide on how to use and the dosage of Morinaga Chilmil milk:

• Step 1: Mom cleans hands thoroughly, ensures hygiene and disinfects the milk bottle and pacifier.
• Step 2: Mom prepares boiled water that has cooled to about 50 degrees Celsius.
• Step 3: Mom pours about 100mL of warm water into the bottle or cup.
• Step 4: Mom uses the spoon provided in the box to take 5 scoops of milk powder, adds it to the water, and shakes well to dissolve completely.
• Step 5: Mom adds warm water to the bottle up to the 200ml mark, stirs gently, then cools the milk to body temperature (about 36 degrees Celsius) and feeds the baby.

Recommended dosage of Chilmil milk for babies from 6 – 36 months old

Morinaga Kodomil – Milk for picky eaters above 3 years old

If moms are wondering 'What milk should a 3-year-old picky eater drink?' don't overlook Morinaga Kodomil.

Morinaga Kodomil is favored by many moms because it has many outstanding advantages and is very suitable for children over 3 years old, such as:

• Kodomil helps cool digestion, eliminates picky eating, prevents intestinal diseases with B vitamins (B1, B2, B6, B12), Bifidus probiotics (Duphalac and GOS) combined with over 2.8 billion Bifidobacterium longum BB536/100g.
• Kodomil is supplemented with DHA to help children develop intelligence, memory, focus, and enhance immunity. Moreover, this type of milk also promotes superior height development with appropriate levels of Calcium and Vitamin D.
• Furthermore, Kodomil enhances immunity, helping children resist external disease-causing factors, reducing illness when going to kindergarten, and during changing weather.
• Kodomil does not contain artificial sweeteners, preservatives, or chemical colorings. On the contrary, the milk has a natural sweet taste and color, with a delicious strawberry/vanilla aroma that is very suitable for the palate of children over 3 years old.

Below is a detailed guide on how to use and the dosage of Morinaga Kodomil milk:

• Step 1: Mom uses the spoon provided in the box to take 3 scoops of milk horizontally into a cup.
• Step 2: Mom adds boiled water to cool or warm water (40-50 degrees Celsius) up to the 200mL/400mL mark, then stirs well to dissolve the milk and feeds the baby.

Recommended dosage of Kodomil milk for children above 3 years old

6 reminders moms should keep in mind when using milk for picky eaters

When supplementing milk to improve picky eating in children, to ensure safety and achieve the best effectiveness, moms need to note:

• • Ensure hygiene when preparing milk: Moms should clean their hands, and the utensils for preparing milk need to be hygienic and thoroughly sterilized to avoid introducing diseases to the child's body.
  • Follow the instructions for milk preparation: Moms should adhere to the instructions for preparing milk for the child on the packaging, such as the recommended temperature, the milk concentration, and the correct amount of water to prevent the child from drinking milk that is too thick, causing constipation, or too dilute, leading to nutritional deficiencies.

• Give the child the right amount to drink: Forcing the child to drink more does not make the child healthier or gain weight faster; on the contrary, it puts pressure on the digestive system and affects the psychology, making the child even more picky. Therefore, moms should give the child the recommended dosage and stop if the child does not want to drink anymore.

• Do not let the child drink leftover milk: Milk that has been prepared for 2 hours (especially overnight) has a high risk of bacterial contamination, so moms should absolutely not let the child drink it.
• Pay attention to temperature, milk quality: Before giving the child to drink, moms should pay attention to the appropriate milk temperature (around 37 degrees Celsius) to avoid scalding the child. Moms can check the milk temperature with touch (a few drops on the wrist; if it feels warm, it's safe for the child) or use specialized measuring devices. Also, if the milk has an unusual odor, color, moms should absolutely not let the child drink it,…

Here are all the essential information that moms need to understand about milk for picky eaters. Hopefully, this useful knowledge helps moms choose the right type of milk to help their little ones overcome picky eating, achieve standard weight gain, and develop healthily. If moms have any concerns related to picky eating in children, please contact the hotline 0916 434 429 for detailed advice from experts.

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