Breast‐fed infants achieve a higher rate of brain and whole body docosahexaenoate accumulation than formula‐fed infants not consuming dietary docosahexaenoate

Docosahexaenoate (DHA) has been increasingly recognized as an important fatty acid for neural and visual development during the first 6 mon of life. One important point of controversy that remains is the degree to which adequate levels of DHA can be acquired from endogenous synthesis in infants vs. what should be provided as dietary DHA. We have approached this problem by a retrospective analysis of published body composition data to estimate …