Would you freeze-dry breast milk? These Singapore companies are betting on it

Ms Yang Mei sends her breast milk to be freeze-dried at BioAcumen Global. She says it is a convenient way for her son, Leo Lumediluna, to be fed when she is at work. ST PHOTO: GAVIN FOO
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SINGAPORE – Leo Lumediluna, who turns one year old in April, does not like formula milk.

His mother, Ms Yang Mei, 37, says it is “a hassle” for her mother, who takes care of Leo, to have to rush home and heat up Ms Yang’s expressed breast milk when she is out and about with the boy.

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