Colon Microflora in Infants Fed Formula with Galacto- and Fructo-Oligosaccharides: More Like Breast-Fed Infants

Knol, Jan; A.M.J. Scholtens, Petra; Kafka, Corinna; Steenbakkers, Jochem; Gro, Sabine; F. Helm, Klaus; Klarczyk, Malte; Sch pfer, Helmut; B ckler, Heinz-Michael; Wells, John

doi:10.1097/00005176-200501000-00007

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Colon Microflora in Infants Fed Formula with Galacto- and Fructo-Oligosaccharides: More Like Breast-Fed Infants

Published in Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition • Dec 28, 2004

Authors:

Jan Knol

Petra A.M.J. Scholtens

Corinna Kafka

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: The intestinal flora of breast-fed infants is generally dominated by Bifidobacteria. We aimed to investigate whether an infant formula supplemented with galacto-oligosaccharides and fructo-oligosaccharides (GOS/FOS) is able to establish a bifido-dominant microflora, not only in numbers b...

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Propionate

Infant formula

Prebiotic

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