Human Milk Licosachyrides in Infant Formulas

Human milk licosachrides have been identified, but are really hard to study because they're very hard to separate from one another. So it has been difficult to study them in terms of infant formula. Only two of these human milk ligasachride have been put into the infant formula - one called two f l and one called lacto n neotectraos. All these molecules have real fun names like that. These have been added to certain formulas since 20 15, and they seem to be having some positive effects. They seem to improve the digestion. And also, we don't fully understand what all these molecules do, but scientist believed that they're quite involved with

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