Soluble Galactose Content of Selected Baby Food Cereals and Juices
✍ Scribed by Kenneth C. Gross; S.Jean Weese; Janet Johnson; Sareen Stepnick Gropper
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 296 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0889-1575
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✦ Synopsis
To provide information necessary for managing the diets of infants with galactosemia, the amount of galactose, in its unconjugated monomeric form, was quantified via capillary gas chromatography/mass spectrometry in selected baby food cereals and juices. Apple and orange baby food juices had the highest galactose content, typically over (2 \mathrm{mg} / \mathrm{l} 00 \mathrm{~g}) of juice. Pear and white grape juices contained less than (1.5 \mathrm{mg}) galactose (/ 100 \mathrm{~g}) of juice. Of the cereals tested, rice, oatmeal, high protein (containing soy, wheat, and either oat or corn), and mixed (containing oat, wheat, corn, and rice and/or barley) contained less than (1 \mathrm{mg}) galactose (/ 100 \mathrm{~g}) cereal; some contained no detectable galactose. However, these cereals commercially supplemented with fruit contained elevated levels of galactose, in some cases over threefold. 1995 Academic Press. Inc.