Table 1.
Exogenous antioxidants in breast and formula milk in Japan
| Type of milk | Breast milk | Formula milk |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | B | ||||||||
| Day after delivery (days) |
3–5 |
6–10 |
11–15 |
16–30 |
31–60 |
61–120 |
121–240 |
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| Cu (µg/dl) | 45.1 | 42 | 44.5 | 38.3 | 35.4 | 28.6 | 25.3 | 43 | 41 |
| Zn (µg/dl) | 487 | 411 | 352 | 280 | 207 | 125 | 80.9 | 410 | 340 |
| Vitamin A (µg/100 ml) | 192 | 145 | 109 | 77 | 76 | 62 | 64 | 53 | 59 |
| β-carotene (µg/100 ml) | 23 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 9.5 | 5.2 |
| α-tocopherol (µg/100 ml) | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.84 | 0.51 |
| Vitamin C (mg/100 ml) | 7.4 | 6.3 | 7.5 | 7.1 | 6.7 | 6 | 5.7 | 6.8 | 6.2 |