Reduced crying and favourable stool characteristics in Chinese infants fed milk fat-based formula.

Background And Objectives: Chinese infants consuming four different commercially-available infant formulas were evaluated on gut comfort and stool consistency parameters.

Methods And Study Design: Gut comfort characteristics were evaluated during a 7-day cross-sectional observational study in 409 healthy, term, exclusively formula-fed infants via questionnaires and fecal parameters.

Results: The stool consistency and color scores were different between the infants consuming one of the four commercially-available infant formulas including different fat sources, i.