Milk proteins benefit gut integrity

Gut integrity
Promoting human health by optimising intestinal epithelial integrity and function is without a doubt within the reach of food industries.

Milk ingredients work
During gut inflammation the availability of threonine and cysteine for the production of the protective mucus layer in the gut is limiting. Commissioned by the Dutch Dairy Association we therefore tested whether specific milk ingredients could strengthen the protective mucus layer and thereby protect against gut inflammation. Dr Corinne Sprong and her colleagues showed with our in-vivo models that some milk ingredients reduced diarrhoea and decreased gene expression of inflammation markers.