Published on in “Business, Business”, language — English. 6 pages.
Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) are a family of structurally diverse unconjugated glycan’s that are found in and unique to human breast milk, despite not actually being digestible by human infants. HMOs function as a prebiotic helping to establish commensal bacteria. HMOs also function as anti-adhesives that help prevent the attachment of microbial pathogens to mucosal surfaces. More