Sentences with phrase «milk as a functional food»

The combination of breastfeeding support and donor milk banking is based on the notion of human milk as a functional food that is important for decreasing neonatal morbidity.

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In addition to being a leader in permeate production volumes, the U.S. dairy industry has also been a pioneer in investing significant research and development efforts revealing the sensory, functional and nutritional benefits of whey and milk permeate as cost - saving, flavor - enhancing and sodium - reducing food and beverage ingredients.

Despite groups like the World Health Organisation (WHO) questioning the benefits of follow - on milks, Euromonitor International marked them and infant formulas as the fastest growing functional food and drink category in 2013 — adding $ 5bn ($ 3.63 bn) in global sales over the year.

Babies do produce functional enzymes (pepsin and proteolytic enzymes) and digestive juices (hydrochloric acid in the stomach) that work on proteins and fats.12 This makes perfect sense since the milk from a healthy mother has 50 - 60 percent of its energy as fat, which is critical for growth, energy and development.13 In addition, the cholesterol in human milk supplies an infant with close to six times the amount most adults consume from food.13 In some cultures, a new mother is encouraged to eat six to ten eggs a day and almost ten ounces of chicken and pork for at least a month after birth.

Studies at Carleton University have shown that sea buckthorn can be used for creating functional foods, such as yogurt, stimulating the growth of bacteria in fermented milk.

Probiotics must survive the gastrointestinal transit to exert a health - promoting effect (9), and they can be consumed in various forms, but mainly as either a functional food, such as in yogurt / fermented milk formulas with live probiotic bacteria, or as encapsulated supplements.

Instead, probiotics are found in certain functional foods such as yogurt and milk beverages.

Camel milk had the highest content of phospholipids and can be among the considered types of milk for infants and toddlers who need alternatives or fortifiers and suggested it could be used for functional food for adults as well.