This infant cereal chiefly consisted of rice meal, fullfat milk powder, rice germ and dried yeast, and fortified with ferrous lactate and calcium carbonate. This mixture contained 14.1% protein, 8.6% fat, 64.3% carbohydrate, 750mg% calcium, 10mg% iron, 1.0mg% zinc and proper amount of various kinds of vitamins.1. Growth test; 84 weaning SD rats were randomly divided into 6 groups:(A) Infant cereal group;(B) Control I; (C) Control II; (A') Infant cereal group; (B') Control I; (D) Casein group. The latter three groups contained 10% protein which were designed for calculating PER. All these different preparations were fed to 6 groups for 4 weeks. The results showed that the body weight gain, the FE, CE and PER were not significantly different between group A and B but there were significant difference between group A and C. The Hb was increased from 11.76g% ( ) and 11.46g%() to 14.30g% and 14.46g% respectively in group A. The bones developed well and no decalcification occured.2.Nitrogen balance test:(A). Infant cereal group; (B) Control I. The results indicated that the TD, BV and NPU of group A were 98.08%, 85.73% and 84.09% and of group B were 97.81%, 87.51% and 85.59% respectively. Both groups obtained the results of positive nitrogen balance, no significant statistical difference. The contents of hepatic and body nitrogen of two groups were also not significantly different.These data demonstrate that this infant cereal is able to promote the growth of weanling rats, to retain positive body nitrogen and to prevent the occurrence of anemia and rickets.

Fish protein powder and fresh fish meal had been successfuly applied to infant feeding as milk substitute for infants during 1962-1964 by Shanghai Children's Hospital.On this basis the authors conducted another experiment intending to testify the therapeutic effect of fish protein powder in 1980-1981. One hundred and fifty infantile diarrhea cases were studied, wherein, 121 children aged under 12 months. By administering fish protein powder to the patients with various dosages according to ages, generally 5 gms. per day in a certain period, it was found that of the total diarrhea patients under study, 53.3% completely recovered, 22.0% became better significantly, 17.3% took a favourable turn, and 7.3% failed to respond to the treatment.Intensive observation and statistical analysis revealed that fish protein powder is not only suitable for normal infants as their milk supplement but also effective as a pharmaceutical to cure infantile diarrhea, especially for those who suffer from malnutrition with complications. Its pharmacology, however, has yet to be disclosed.