Mellin's Food

Mellin's Food Company was a maker of Mellin's Food for Infants and Invalids in Boston, Massachusetts.

History

The company started when the English food chemist Gustav Mellin developed an infant formula in 1866. It wasn't a total nutritional supplement , the powder was diluted with cow's milk and water and was called a "milk modifier".[1] It was a "soluble, dry extract of wheat, malted barley and bicarbonate of potassium."[2]

References

  1. ↑ Andrew Smith (2013). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America.
  2. ↑ Jacqueline H. Wolf (2001). Don't Kill Your Baby. Ohio State University Press. p. 163.

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