Chinese Human Milk Omics: Cohort Study and Industrial Application

Abstract

Human milk, which provides personalized, comprehensive, and balanced nutrients, and immune protection, is the best nutritional source for 0~6 month-old infants, and it is the gold standard for infant food. A cohort study of human milk omics is a necessary prerequisite for comprehensively analyzing the composition and characteristics of Chinese human milk, establishing Chinese infant food norms and standards, developing infant nutrition guidelines, and creating infant foods. This article presents the research progress of the National Engineering Research Center of Dairy Health for Maternal and Child pertaining to the China Maternal and Infant Nutrition Health Birth Cohort Study (MINC) in terms of breast milk lipidomics, glycomics, proteomics, and microbiomics detection techniques, composition characteristics, differences from bovine milk, and industrial applications in infant food. This will lay a science and technical support for the omics research of Chinese human milk and provide the necessary data and demonstration for industrial application.

Keywords

• human milk omics
• birth cohort study
• bovine milk
• infant formula
• functional evaluation
• industrial application