Synthetic human milk oligosaccharide (HMO) structures are used to supplement infant formula despite limited understanding of their impact on the developing gut microbiota. Here, we assess the impact of 2-fucosyllactose (2’FL) and pooled (p)HMOs on the composition and activity of cultured microbia...
Untargeted metabolomics was performed to characterize the metabolite profiles of fecal fermentation supernatants. Human fecal inoculum was incubated anaerobically with FL (10 mg/mL) or without any carbohydrate for 36 h. After centrifugation, the resulting supernatants were collected and analyzed....