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Karicare
Gold+ Stage 1 (0–6 months)
Nutricia Karicare Gold+ cow infant formula Stage 1 / 0–6 months; NZ manufacture, AU/NZ market. Clear cow line (Goat/Sheep are separate families). Price provisional AU Stage-1 peer. Lab data not yet in this catalog.
Ingredients
- Milk solids
- vegetable oils (emulsifier (soy lecithin), antioxidant (ascorbyl palmitate))
- short chain galacto-oligosaccharides (milk)
- dried omega LCPUFAs (fish oil, antioxidant (sodium ascorbate, mixed natural tocopherols, ascorbyl palmitate))
- long chain fructo-oligosaccharides
- taurine
- choline
- inositol
- L-carnitine
- Minerals: Potassium
- calcium
- chloride
- phosphorus
- sodium
- magnesium
- iron
- zinc
- copper
- iodine
- manganese
- selenium
- Vitamins: Vitamins (A, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B12, C, D, E, K)
- folic acid
- biotin
No Consumer Reports lab row is wired for this formula yet. Metals are not invented; Aptamil CR PDF figures stay gated until commercial-use license.
Product line
Karicare Gold+ Cow
Stage 1 · 1 of 3 stages on the live shelf. Sibling stages stay stubbed until catalog SKUs ship — scores stay per SKU.
Lab report
Detected heavy metals
No CR lab row wired · powder concentration
Lab status: MISSING. This SKU is on the shelf for discovery and barcode match, but no recovered heavy-metal row is wired into the app dataset. We do not invent µg/kg values.
CR commercial-use license remains a gate before shipping reproduced CR µg/kg for any formula. How to read these numbers →
About the screening score. This draft ranks by estimated formula-window intake vs named protective anchors (MADL / RfD / FAO-WHO where cited) — not cohort percentiles and not LeaveDuration “lifetime” math. Missing metals are listed as not tested and do not earn a purity bonus. EU 2023/915 powder maxima remain on the lab bars. HiPP Dutch Stage 1 Pb/Cd sit under those MLs and still show year-window intake here. See Learn. DO NOT treat as merged product math until James reviews.
~1-year intake listing
Estimated intake vs protective anchors
Default scenario: 24 fl oz/day × 365 days (~105.6 g powder/day at 4.4 g/fl oz). At this volume, feeding Gold+ Stage 1 (0–6 months) costs about $5.05/day ($152/month).
No lab metals wired — every key metal is not tested here. We do not invent µg/kg values. Screening score stays at the bottom until labs ship.
Anchors are protective references (e.g. CA OEHHA Pb MADL 0.5 µg/day; Cd MADL 4.1 µg/day; EPA iAs RfD with disclosed 6.1 kg infant; Al FAO/WHO 400 ppb powder MPL as screening context) — not “safe/unsafe” diagnoses and not EU legal MLs. Assumptions are editable above. See Learn. Discuss with your pediatrician.
Where to buy
$42.99≈ 31.7 oz container · $1.36/oz
Approximate US retail — prices vary by store.