Compositions for use in promoting accelerated butyrate production in young children

A method to prevent and/or treat a health disorder, and/or to promote a health benefit in a young child aged between one and less than three years compared to an infant under 12 months of age, wherein the health disorder is selected from the group consisting of inflammation, infections, allergies, metabolic health disorders and wherein the health benefit is selected from the group consisting of gut maturation, gut brain axis connection, and colonic healing comprising administering a nutritional composition comprising 2-fucosylactose (2′-FL), that promotes accelerated butyrate production in the gut of the young child consuming the nutritional composition, wherein the butyrate production is increased in the distal colon by at least 100% during a period of 1 week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks or 4 weeks.