Adequate nutrition is important in all stages of life—from prenatal to late geriatric. One stage of development stands out as particularly important, setting the building blocks for the rest of adult life: early childhood. According to the World Health Organisation, nutrition is a critical part of health and development. Better…
Nutrition Options For The Immune System
Growth in health concerns across the globe is expected to drive the market for nutritional supplement. By Arijita Pani, Senior Research Associate—Food & Beverage; Suraj Negvenkar, Assistant Manager—Food & Beverage; Nagesh Manepalli, Head—Food, Beverage, Animal Feed & Agriculture from MarketsandMarkets. Nutritional intake forms the fundamental basis of the competence…
Better Understanding Breast Milk
Our paediatric nutrition experts have made huge advances over the past 60 years into developing and analysing infant formulas in relation to breast milk, says Bertram Fong, Senior Research Scientist at Fonterra. The role that breast milk was designed to play in human growth is quite incredible—after thousands of generations,…
Human Milk Oligosaccharides (HMO): Creating Differentiated Offers In Infant Nutrition
Marianne Heer, Scientific Marketing Manager Human Nutrition of BASF SE, discusses the importance of HMOs with molecular structures identical to those occurring in human milk for optimal infant nutrition. There is broad consensus that breast feeding is the best nutrition for newborn infants. Not only does it assure normal…