What is Formula III?

Formula III is a concept for storage, preparation and serving of baby formula milk.

Formula III saves time and offers flexibility, ensures correct temperature, correct mixing ratio and safe hygiene.

Imagine a disposable bottle the shape and size of an ordinary baby bottle.
This disposable bottle contains a fluent concentrate of formula milk.
The concentrate is sterile and can be stored at room temperature (15 to 25 ^oC/59 - 77 ^oF)
There is sufficient space in the disposable bottle for adding boiling water.

The amount of boiling water to be added is adjusted to the temperature of the formula concentrate. When adding this amount of boiling water you obtain a temperature of approximately 37 ^oC This is the temperature your baby prefers and needs.

An example: for a 200 ml./6.75 Fl.Oz. meal  you just need to add 40 ml./1.35 Fl.Oz. boiling water.

The nutrition value and the amount of concentrate is adjusted to the final amount of baby formula milk, ensuring that you obtain a correct mixing ration by adding this amount of boiling water.

Boiling water is per definition clean. By combining with the sterile concentrate hygiene is ensured.

Boiling water can be obtained any where ... gas stations, cafés, grocery stores, planes, trains, any private home or work place. Most often for free ... and believe me, with a crying baby you even jump the line!

This method is a very gentle way of heating baby food because it only heats the food. The impact on the food when adding a small volume of boiling water is marginal and very local. You avoid to heat the container, contrary to heating a baby bottle in a hot water bath or a micro wave oven, where the plastic container is also exposed to heating.

In this way you obtain a ready meal at the correct temperature, correct mixing ratio and safe hygiene.

And in no time! And you don't need access to micro wave oven, kitchen sink, kitchen utensils, no tedious planning, packing and cleaning.

Formula III may at first seem to increase waste. This concern is similar to the debate when introducing the disposable diaper where research later concluded that the two solutions were in fact equal. It is not the case that the existing solutions are environmentally neutral: the milk carton must be disposed off. Baby bottles must be washed and disinfected in boiling water, etc. The incineration of the plastic bottle I propose for Formula II will not polute any more than a milk carton.

In this way we saved time, gained flexibility and increased safety for temperature, mixing ratios and hygiene when my twin babys were bottle-fed.