Human Milk Oligosaccharides
Adult HMO supplementation combined with B. infantis has restored Bifidobacteria from zero to about 9% in clinical studies. Breast milk provides substantially more HMOs than typical HMO-supplemented infant formula. HMOs are indigestible pre…
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Adult HMO supplementation combined with B. infantis has restored Bifidobacteria from zero to about 9% in clinical studies. Breast milk provides substantially more HMOs than typical HMO-supplemented infant formula. HMOs are indigestible prebiotic fibers that make up about one-third of breast milk by composition. It is unclear whether formula HMOs have the same species-specificity as maternal HMOs. HMOs selectively feed Bifidobacteria in the large intestine. Mothers produce more than 200 possible HMO types in several main families.