To begin, my wife and I love this product! My nearly 3 month old daughter loves this product. We felt so blessed when we found Kabrita because we had much the same experience that many reviewers talk about. My wife's milk did not come in and our daughter was having a TERRIBLE time switching from donor breast milk to formula. We tried four different kinds (Gerber Good Start Gentile, Similac Sensitive, Gerber Soy, and Nature's One Organic) and she would scream in agony her tummy hurt so badly. It broke our heart. We found Kabrita and my daughter ate it like a champ, had no stomach problems, and was very regular with her pooping (although a friendly caveat, the poop is golf course green!). She was gaining weight and growing well and my wife and I would not have know there was a problem if she had not caught a cold.
WARNING - this product is NOT good for infants!
After my daughter had her cold for 2 weeks, we took her to see her Pediatrician, who noted she looked pale. She asked us about the formula and we showed her the nutritional data. The Kabrita Infant formula (Stage 1 & 2) is not available in the USA, so all we could get was the Toddler formula, which we were told was fine for an infant. Of note, you CAN get Kabrita Infant on Amazon, but it ships from the UK, takes a long time, as is pretty expensive. In any case, we ran some labs on our daughter and she was ANEMIC and her potassium AND calcium labs were HIGH. Further tests showed that she was IRON DEFICIENT, which our doctor said is very uncommon for infants.
Kabrita Toddler has too much calcium for an infant, was the conclusion. In fact, over twice as much as an infant is recommended to get. This is NOT true of the Kabrita Infant, but again, it's really hard to get in the US. Too much calcium in the formula meant her calcium lab was too high AND our doctor told us the extra calcium also threw off her potassium. Perhaps most concerning is that we were told the high calcium BLOCKS the absorption of the iron in the Kabrita, thus our daughter has IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA. We were super bummed and have had to switch her OFF this formula.
To be clear, we love this formula! When our daughter gets to be a toddler and needs the extra calcium, we'll use it for sure! In the mean time, we are going to spend the money to get Kabrita INFANT and also are going to try NannyCare's Infant formulation. Also, we did submit this information and our daughter's labs to Kabrita itself. They have been very helpful throughout this process.
Lactose (Milk), Nonfat Dry Goat Milk, Goat Whey Protein Concentrate Powder (Milk), High sn2-Palmitic Acid Oil, Soybean Oil*, Galacto-oligosaccharides (Milk), Palm Kernel Oil, Sunflower Oil, and less than 1%: Tri Calcium Citrate, Mortierella Alpina Oil, Tri Sodium Citrate, Crypthecodinium Cohnii Oil, Calcium Carbonate, Potassium Hydroxide, Choline Bitartrate, Sodium L-ascorbate, Choline Chloride, Ferrous Sulphate, L-ascorbic Acid, Zinc Sulphate, Vitamin E Acetate, Inositol, Niacinamide, Calcium Pantothenate, Cupric Sulphate, Retinyl Acetate, Thiamin Hydrochloride, Vitamin B6 Hydrochloride, Riboflavin, Manganese Sulphate, Folic Acid, Potassium Iodide, Vitamin K1, D-biotin, Sodium Selenate, Vitamin D3, Cyanocobalamin.
