NUTRITIONAL COMPOSITIONS AND INFANT FORMULAS CONTAINING RELATIVELY HIGH LEVEL OF OLIGOFRUCTOSE FOR INDUCING GUT MICROBIOTA PATTERNS CLOSE TO THOSE OF HUMAN MILK FED INFANTS

摘要

The invention relates to a nutrition connposition with oligofructose and optionally high sn-2 palmitate triglycerides for inducing gut microbiota patterns in the guts of infants or young children that are similar in composition and diversity to the microbiota of breast fed infants. The infants can be 0-12 months or 0 to 36 months of age and the composition can be an infant formula. The composition promotes a healthy intestinal microbiota and can have long term effects.