Apparatus and method for providing metered amounts of ingredient, especially for a tailored nutrition to infants

A method for providing a nutritional composition to an infant, wherein the composition is tailored to the specific needs of an infant comprising the step of using an apparatus providing metered amounts of ingredients to a nutritional composition for use in administration to an infant, the apparatus comprising:

• a plurality of containers, each containing one or more ingredients for the nutritional composition;
• a plurality of delivery devices, each being connected to a container and adapted to deliver from a container a metered amount of the one or more ingredients, to form part of the nutritional composition, to a receptacle;
• an input member adapted to receive an input from a user relating to the amounts of the one or more ingredients to be delivered from the apparatus;
• and
• a controller being adapted to control the metered amounts of ingredients delivered individually from the containers by the delivery devices in response to the input from the user to produce the composition and administering the composition to an infant.