Gold standard for nutrition: a review of human milk oligosaccharide and its effects on infant gut microbiota

Abstract Human milk is the gold standard for nutrition of infant growth, whose nutritional value is mainly attributed to human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs). HMOs, the third most abundant component of human milk after lactose and lipids, are complex sugars with unique structural diversity which are i...

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Main Authors: Shunhao Zhang, Tianle Li, Jing Xie, Demao Zhang, Caixia Pi, Lingyun Zhou, Wenbin Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-05-01
Series:Microbial Cell Factories
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12934-021-01599-y