In this Healthed lecture, A/Prof Lemberg, Paediatric Gastroenterologist; Head, Paediatric Gastroenterology, The Sydney Children’s Hospital; Director, Children’s Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Clinic, The Sydney Children’s Hospital, explains the current evidence  demonstrating the multiple beneficial effects of HMOs, including antimicrobial, immune modulation, prebiotic, neurodevelopment and cognition effects. Recently, manufactured HMOs have been approved as food ingredients with fascinating implications for infant formula. This lecture will explore the potential of HMOs to make infant formula a more beneficial alternative when human breast milk is inadequate or unavailable.

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