Nutritional effect of including egg yolk in the weaning diet of breast-fed and formula-fed infants: a randomized controlled trial

Abstract

n-3 Fatty acid-enriched eggs may provide a means of increasing dietary DHA during the second 6 mo of life. Egg yolks may also be a useful source of iron during the weaning period and can be safely included in the weaning diet with no perturbations in plasma cholesterol.

The Effect of Fish Oil Supplementation on Heart rate in Healthy Danish Infants

“…The "n-3PUFA-status" in Danish infants also seems to be more favorable compared with other populations. The n-3LCPUFA content of RBC at 12 mo in our unsupplemented group (24) was comparable with the levels found in the groups supplemented with DHA-enriched eggs in two studies from the United States and Australia (31,32). Thus, we would expect that the results we report here would be stronger in infants from countries with a lower fish intake.…”

Fatty acid supply with complementary foods and LC-PUFA status in healthy infants: results of a randomised controlled trial

“…It is therefore surprising that only few studies tried to optimise DHA status via complementary feeding [13][14][15]21]. Most of these studies examined effects of preformed DHA either by enriched egg yolk [13,14] or by fish oil [15].…”

“…Two dietary intervention studies showed that provision of n-3 LC-PUFA-enriched egg yolk resulted in higher values of erythrocyte membrane DHA (RBC-DHA) compared to control groups [13,14]. Damsgaard and colleagues found fish-oil supplementation from age 9-12 months to increase RBC-DHA levels relative to controls [15].…”

PUFA and LC-PUFA intake during the first year of life: can dietary practice achieve a guideline diet?

“…Consumption of meat increased AA concentration in the blood of formula-fed but not of breastfed infants (Luukkainen et al, 1996), whereas consumption of egg yolk increased the DHA concentration (Makrides et al, 2002;Hoffman et al, 2004). LC-PUFA status was significantly higher when LC-PUFAs were supplemented than without supplementation (Carnielli et al, 2007), and resulted in earlier sitting without help at the end of the first year of life (Agostoni et al, 2009).…”