Freezing, refrigerating breast milk lowers its antioxidant content: study
Lorrayne Anthony, Canadian Press, October 21, 2004
"TORONTO (CP) - Refrigerating or freezing expressed breast milk, a practice
many women use when returning to the workforce after maternity leave, lowers
its antioxidant content, a new study has found. "We find fresh breast milk
contains more antioxidants than refrigerated breast milk or frozen breast
milk or formula," said Thomas Hegyi of the department of pediatrics at
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey. He is one of the authors
of the study to be published Saturday in the Fetal and Neonatal edition of
the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood..." [This article actually
contains a comparison of antioxidant values in fresh, refrigerated, and
frozen breastmilk and the comparative values in formula - JC]

Link to the full article is at http://www.bfnews.blogspot.com

-- Jodine Chase

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