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US 9,883,692 B2Granted
Nutrition with non-viable bifidobacterium and nondigestible oligosaccharide
AssigneeN.V. Nutricia
InventorsSander Hougee, Adrianus Johannes Maria Vriesema, Johan Garssen, Jan Knol
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Abstract
An infant and/or toddler nutrition comprising non-viable Bifidobacterium breve and a non-digestible oligosaccharide and its use are disclosed.
Claims9
A nutritional composition, which has a pH between 5.5 and 8, comprising:
- (a) a first and/or a second non-digestible oligosaccharide each having a degree of polymerization of 2 to 200, wherein the first non-digestible oligosaccharide is a transgalacto-oligosaccharide and the second non-digestible oligosaccharides is a fructo-oligosaccharide;
- (b) non-viable Bifidobacterium breve from strain M-16V or I-2219 in an amount equivalent to 106 to 1013 colony forming units B. breve per gram dry weight of the nutritional composition, wherein viable Bifidobacterium breve bacteria are present in an amount that is below their detection limit as measured by plating;
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- (c) cow's milk protein.
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