Human milk oligosaccharides against later in life excessive fat mass accumulation and related health disorders
AssigneeSociete des Produits Nestle S.A.
InventorsAristea Binia, Norbert Sprenger
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a nutritional composition comprising at least one fucosylated oligosaccharide for use in an infant or a young child for reducing and/or preventing later in life excessive fat mass accumulation and/or a health disorder related to excessive fat mass accumulation, wherein said fucosylated oligosaccharide has at least one fucose group attached by an alpha 1,3 linkage, at least one fucose group attached by an alpha 1,4 linkage, or combinations thereof. The invention also relates to nutritional composition for use to promote healthy growth.
Claims11
A method for reducing and/or avoiding excessive fat mass accumulation and/or a health disorder related to the excessive fat mass accumulation in an infant or young child later in life, the method comprising administering a nutritional composition comprising at least one fucosylated oligosaccharide to the infant or young child, wherein the at least one fucosylated oligosaccharide has at least one fucose group attached by an alpha 1,3 linkage, at least one fucose group attached by an alpha 1,4 linkage, or combinations thereof,
- wherein the at least one fucosylated oligosaccharide comprises diFucosyllactose (DFL) in an amount of 0.02-2.78 g/100 g of the nutritional composition on a dry weight basis, and the infant or young child is born to a mother carrying SNP rs3894326.
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