Colostrum is the milk produced during the first few days after birth and contains high levels
of immunoglobulins, antimicrobial peptides, and growth factors. Colostrum is important for …

Recent studies have characterized how host genetics, prenatal environment and delivery
mode can shape the newborn microbiome at birth. Following this, postnatal factors, such as …

The present paper aims to review the natural food preservatives with antimicrobial
properties emphasizing their importance for the future of food manufacturing and consumers' …

Mothers' own milk is the best source of nutrition for nearly all infants. Beyond somatic growth,
breast milk as a biologic fluid has a variety of other benefits, including modulation of …

The majority of organisms that inhabit the human body reside in the gut. Since babies are
born with an immature immune system, they depend on a highly synchronized microbial …

Breast milk is the perfect nutrition for infants, a result of millions of years of evolution, finely
attuning it to the requirements of the infant. Breast milk contains many complex proteins …

Human breast milk (HBM) is not only an indispensable source of nutrients for early human
growth and development, supplying components that support infant growth and …

Human milk (HM) is dynamic and shows a high inter-and intra-individual variability. To
characterize HM with precision, it is necessary to understand the factors that modulate its …

Abstract α-Lactalbumin is a whey protein that constitutes approximately 22% of the proteins
in human milk and approximately 3.5% of those in bovine milk. Within the mammary gland, α …

When a mother's milk is unavailable, the best alternative is donor milk (DM). Milk delivered
to Human Milk Banks should be pasteurized in order to inactivate the microbial agents that …