High fat human milk products
The disclosure features a human milk cream composition as well as methods of making a human milk cream composition and using a human milk cream composition. In particular, the disclosure features a method of using a human milk cream composition to raise the caloric content of human milk.
1. A method for providing supplemental nutrition to an infant in need thereof comprising adding a volume of a standardized human milk cream composition to a volume of human milk sufficient to raise the caloric content of the human milk, thereby providing supplemental nutrition to the infant, wherein the standardized human milk cream composition comprises about 18% to about 30% human milk fat and about 2.0 kcal/mL to about 3.0 kcal/mL.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the infant is a preterm or low birthweight infant.
3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the standardized human milk cream composition is added to a volume of human milk in an amount sufficient to increase at least one growth parameter in the infant.
4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the at least one growth parameter is length velocity, head circumference velocity, and/or weight velocity.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein adding the standardized human milk cream composition raises the caloric content of the human milk to about 20 kcal/oz.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein adding the standardized human milk cream composition raises the caloric content of the human milk to about 24 kcal/oz.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein adding the standardized human milk cream composition raises the caloric content of the human milk to about 26 kcal/oz.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the standardized human milk cream composition comprises about 25% human milk fat and about 2.5 kcal/mL.
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the standardized human milk cream composition comprises human milk cream and water.
10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the standardized human milk cream composition comprises human milk cream and permeate.
11. The method of claim 1 , wherein the standardized human milk cream composition is produced from pooled human milk from qualified donors.
12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the pooled milk is screened for contaminants, pathogens, and drugs.
13. The method of claim 1 , wherein the standardized human milk cream composition has been treated to reduce bioburden.
14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the standardized human milk cream composition has been pasteurized.