Decades of studies find freeze drying preserves nutrients and antibodies, which are reduced or lost in breast milk frozen for more than two weeks.

  • https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07373937.2016.1141781

  • https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07373937.2020.1824188

  • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24840090/

  • https://doi.org/10.1089/bfm.2016.0102

  • https://doi.org/10.4315/0362-028x-46.4.330

  • https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18042147

  • https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210999

  • https://doi.org/10.1038/s41372-023-01861-8

Research finds regular freezing impacts the nutritional content of human milk and decreases protein and caloric content over time.

  • https://doi.org/10.1093/pch/pxy164

  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3411345/

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The freeze-dried process…

has been studied for decades and used by milk banks worldwide.

preserves antibodies and 97% of nutrients and maintains overall caloric density.

can improve the taste of your milk by deactivating the lipase enzymes.

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