Correlating Digestion-Driven Self-Assembly in Milk and Infant Formulas with Changes in Lipid Composition.

ABSTRACT: Lipids in mammalian milks such as bovine milk and human breast milk have been shown to self-assemble into various liquid crystalline materials during digestion. In this study, the direct correlation between the composition of the lipids from three types of mammalian milk, three brands of infant formulas (IFs), and soy milk and the liquid crystalline structures that form during their digestion was investigated to link the material properties to the composition. The self-assembly behavior was assessed using in vitro digestion coupled with in situ small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). Lipid composition was determined during in vitro digestion using ex situ liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. All tested milks self-assembled into ordered structures during digestion, with the majority of mil

SUBMITTER: Pham AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7241073 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature