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Infant food applications of complex carbohydrates: Structure, synthesis, and function
- Source :
- Carbohydrate Research. 437:16-27
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2017.
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Abstract
- Professional health bodies such as the World Health Organization (WHO), the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recommend breast milk as the sole source of food during the first year of life. This position recognizes human milk as being uniquely suited for infant nutrition. Nonetheless, most neonates in the West are fed alternatives by 6 months of age. Although inferior to human milk in most aspects, infant formulas are able to promote effective growth and development. However, while breast-fed infants feature a microbiota dominated by bifidobacteria, the bacterial flora of formula-fed infants is usually heterogeneous with comparatively lower levels of bifidobacteria. Thus, the objective of any infant food manufacturer is to prepare a product that results in a formula-fed infant developing a breast-fed infant-like microbiota. The goal of this focused review is to discuss the structure, synthesis, and function of carbohydrate additives that play a role in governing the composition of the infant microbiome and have other health benefits.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
030106 microbiology
Carbohydrates
Oligosaccharides
Lactose
Biology
Breast milk
Biochemistry
Article
Analytical Chemistry
03 medical and health sciences
chemistry.chemical_compound
fluids and secretions
Polysaccharides
Flora (microbiology)
Environmental health
Humans
Food science
Microbiome
Human services
Bifidobacterium
Milk, Human
Galactooligosaccharide
Organic Chemistry
Gastrointestinal Microbiome
Infant
General Medicine
biology.organism_classification
Infant Formula
Fructans
Prebiotics
030104 developmental biology
chemistry
Infant formula
Carbohydrate Metabolism
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00086215
- Volume :
- 437
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Carbohydrate Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ac0fbf2eeeb6f8edd997431ef1ca02c1