COST OF FOOD FOR INFANTS AND TODDLERS

The cost of food for infants aged 5-12 months who are fed according to the scientific dietary schedule for the first year of rife, is about 50-150% higher if beikost is exclusively fed by use of commercial prod ucts as compared to exclusive feeding of home made beikost. The cost o f food (per 1000 kcal) of the present day diet decrease from the 5th m onth with increasing age and decreasing proportions of commercial prod ucts acid reaches by the end of the first year of life the range of th e cost of food of the present day diet of older children. A diet accor ding to the scientific recommendations given for infants in the second half of the first year of life and for children and adolescents, resp ectively, does not require higher cost of food than the present day di et which deviates from the recommendations for the majority of childre n.