Alaska Milk Corporation and Royal FrieslandCampina partnership brings dairy expertise, shares health info for mothers and for babies' journey of growing up

Alaska Milk Corporation, a leading Filipino milk company which has established its brand leadership for 40 years in the country and Royal FrieslandCampina, one of the world’s leading dairy companiesare committed to deliver products which promote proper digestion and absorption that will help infants and young children grow healthy inside and out.

Forty years ago, Alaska Milk Corporation’s (AMC) journey with mothers began, and ever since, the company has been a trusted ally in providing everyday affordable nutrition to Filipino families.

Today, this unwavering commitment is made even stronger as Alaska Milk Corporation partners with Royal FrieslandCampina, the Dutch dairy company that has been supplying mothers all over the world with high quality dairy nutrition for over 130 years now.

Tiffany Anne Santuyo, Registered nutritionist/Dietitian/Nutrition Consultant
of Alaska Milk Corporation

A parnership of Alaska Milk Corporation and Royal FrieslandCampina bringing dairy expertise was formally launched held at the Solaire Resort and Casino Grand Ballroom last April 8, 2014 with the presence of Tiffany Anne Santuyo, Registered nutritionist/Dietitian/Nutrition Consultant of Alaska Milk Corporation and from the FreislandCampina Dairy Foods, Dr. Henkjan Verkade, Prof. of Pedriatics University of Groningen, University Medical Center, Groningen, The Netherlands/Consultant, and Dr. Anne Schaafsma, Senior Scientist Nutrition, Global Nutrition Development team of FreislandCampina Innovations International.

Together with FrieslandCampina, AMC continues to offer essential nutrients from milk at any stage of the people’s lives. Mothers can now benefit more from the combined power of their expertise. By offering trustworthy and tasty dairy products to billions of people all over the world, FrieslandCampina contributes towards safeguarding food and nutrient security.

Here are some sharings of the experts from Alaska Milk Corporation and Royal FrieslandCampinathe during the launch of their partnership and with the theme "Friso Four Shares Journey of Growing Up."

Mild processing preserves protein quality. Royal FrieslandCampina, has ventured into producing quality milk that aids not only in digestion but helps children absorb necessary nutrients for growing up and becoming strong inside and out. Through extensive research and innovations in milk production, Royal FrieslandCampina has endeavoured to ensure that it produces milk that will provide premium nutrition for infants and young children.

Just as feeding and nutrition is important to the health of a child, digestion is also crucial as it determines the absorption of nutrients from milk. The speed of digestion determines the speed at which nutrients are made available to the bloodstream.

The transition from breast milk to infant formula often results in constipation or diarrhea among infants. This is due to the significant differences in composition between infant formula and human milk.

There must be an understanding of the main differences between infant formula and breast milk to understand how these two different types of milk are digested by children. Studies have shown that consuming breast milk results most often in soft stool among infants.

Although there are differences in protein, fat and carbohydrate compositions between breast milk and infant formula, it is hypothesized that the production of the milk is highly relevant to digestion. During processing, proteins combine with carbohydrates (glycation) in such a way that digestion becomes very difficult. Non-digestion proteins can lead to unfavourable metabolic responses and changes in gut integrity. Mild processing in the factory can overcome these problems.

With stringent quality control, and its solid focus on promoting innovation, Alaska Milk Corporation and Royal FrieslandCampina are committed to deliver products which promote proper digestion and absorption that will help infants and young children grow healthy inside and out.

For detailed legal information, you may search EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 51 (October 20, 1986): Adopting a National Code of marketing of breastmilk substitutes, breastmilk supplements and related products, penalizing violations thereof and for other purposes.

(Source: The Lawphil Project Arellano Law Foundation http://wwww.lawphil.net/executive/execord/eo1986/eo_51_1986.html)