Infant Food

Nutrition plays an important role in the healthy growth and development of infants during their initial years. Infant formulas are specially designed by the manufacturers to meet the nutritional requirements of the baby. It is either a partial or a total substitute for breast milk for infants under three years. It is a soft food, which can be easily consumed by babies and infants. The composition of the milk fat globule membrane is very specific; it is composed of phospholipids, specific proteins (xanthine oxidase, adipophilin, fatty acid-binding proteins and glycoproteins, such as mucins, lactadherin, butyrophilin, CD36 and cholesterol.

The client was looking for a landscape study to understand the field of infant nutrition containing OPO and/or OPL with emulsifiers through patent, scientific literature and product searches.