NUTRITIONAL COMPOSITIONS AND INFANT FORMULAS COMPRISING BIFIDOBACTERIUM ANIMALIS SSP. LACTIS AND OPTIONALLY A MIX OF OLIGOSACCHARIDES FOR INDUCING A GUT MICROBIOTA CLOSE TO THE ONE OF BREAST FED INFANTS
First Claim
1. A method for promoting or inducing a gut microbiota that is closer to the microbiota of infants fed exclusively with human breast milk, in comparison to the microbiota of infants fed predominantly with a conventional nutritional composition not comprising the probiotic, in infants or young children between 0 and 36 months comprising administering a nutritional composition to such infants or young children comprising a Bifidobacterium animalis spp. lactis probiotic.
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Abstract
The invention relates to a nutrition composition with promoting or inducing a gut microbiota that is closer to infants fed exclusively with human breast milk, in comparison to infant fed with conventional nutritional composition. The composition is in particular intended for infants between 0 and 12 months of age fed predominantly with infant formula. The infants can be fed during 2, 4, or 6 months and the composition can be an infant formula. The composition promotes a healthy intestinal flora and has beneficial long and short terms effects.
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- 1. A method for promoting or inducing a gut microbiota that is closer to the microbiota of infants fed exclusively with human breast milk, in comparison to the microbiota of infants fed predominantly with a conventional nutritional composition not comprising the probiotic, in infants or young children between 0 and 36 months comprising administering a nutritional composition to such infants or young children comprising a Bifidobacterium animalis spp. lactis probiotic.
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