Milk fat benefits
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Health benefits of dairy
Products offering health claims are more attractive to consumers and can translate into higher sales volume and premium price sales. By combining our unique knowledge on composition of milk, bioactivity of ingredients, and gut health and immune defence, we are searching for the health benefits of dairy.
Milk fat benefits
In NIZO’s in-vivo challenge models, milk fat improved gut health by increasing the resistance to pathogens (Listeria). Milk fat has a unique pattern of fatty acids that showed bacteriostatic and bactericidal activity in our in-vitro assays. “In addition, milk fat is a source of sphingolipids that possess bactericidal activity during digestion,” says Dr. Corinne Sprong. “Thus, our in-vitro and in-vivo models showed that milk fat benefits the resistance to these intestinal pathogens.”