Mention must be first made of Fairchild's peptogenic milk powder. By means of this powder and process cow's milk is so modified as to conform remarkably to normal mother's milk, thus affording a food for infants exactly suited to the powers of infant digestion; the amount of the predigesting process can be gradually reduced until the infant can digest normal milk. Savory & Moore supply a number of concentrated peptonised milk preparations - viz., condensed peptonised milk peptonised cocoa and milk, a really excellent and highly nourishing preparation; Cafe zylak, a peptonised coffee and milk (this when diluted with hot water makes a superior cup of cafe au lait); milk chocolate peptonised is a specially good sweetmeat for children; all are palatable and nutritious foods, which can be very readily prepared. Some of the milk companies prepare a predigested milk, and predigested varieties are sold under the name of Loeflund's peptonised milk and Backhaus milk. These are not to be recommended, as there is no means of knowing how far the predigestion has been carried.

Milk in combination with cereals with the starch partly or entirely converted into soluble carbohydrates. - The chief foods in this group are given in the table on the following page, which gives also the composition.

From the point of view of infant foods these foods have all the disadvantages of condensed milk, in respect of lack of freshness and deficiency of fat. The chief difference between these and condensed milk preparations is the form of the soluble carbohydrates in place of the cane sugar.