NUTRITIONAL COMPOSITIONS AND INFANT FORMULAS COMPRISING BIFIDOBACTERIUM ANIMALIS SSP. LACTIS AND OPTIONALLY A MIX OF OLIGOSACCHARIDES FOR INDUCING A GUT MICROBIOTA CLOSE TO THE ONE OF BREAST FED INFANTS

摘要

The invention relates to a nutrition composition with promoting or inducing a gut microbiota that is closer to infants fed exclusively with human breast milk, in comparison to infant fed with conventional nutritional composition. The composition is in particular intended for infants between 0 and 12 months of age fed predominantly with infant formula. The infants can be fed during 2, 4, or 6 months and the composition can be an infant formula. The composition promotes a healthy intestinal flora and has beneficial long and short terms effects.