Human Milk, Fortifiers, and Infant Formula Innovations: Advancing Nutrition and Health in Preterm and Term Infants
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 May 2026 | Viewed by 157
Special Issue Editor
Interests: milk; milk proteins; breastfeeding; infant
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Dear Colleagues,
Feeding during early life is of major importance and has short- and long-term health consequences. Breastfeeding has been reported to be the best method to feed infants. Therefore, every effort should be made to breastfeed infants for as long as possible. However, this may not be possible for every infant. Therefore, efforts to optimize a second choice of feeding, formula feeding, are also needed.
In this Special Issue, we aim to highlight recent advances focused on optimizing infant feeding. I invite our readers to share the results of their research in this area.
Prof. Dr. Yvan Vandenplas
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- breast feeding
- formula feeding
- term infant
- preterm infant
- nutrition
- microbiota
- cow’s milk allergy
- lipid
- protein
- macronutrient
- micronutrient
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