Nutritional Parameters in Colostrum of Different Mammalian Species

Colostrum (or first milk) is the food produced by all the mothers in all specific mammalian species, ruminants, monogastric and marine mammalians for their newborns during the first 24–48 h post-partum. Colostrum provides to the neonate all essential nutrients necessary for the first week of life, b...

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Published inBeverages (Basel) Vol. 8; no. 3; p. 54
Main Authors Polidori, Paolo, Rapaccetti, Roberta, Klimanova, Yulia, Zhang, Jing-Jing, Santini, Giuseppe, Vincenzetti, Silvia
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.09.2022
Subjects
Age
Amino acids
Analysis
Babies
Baby foods
Breast milk
Calcium phosphates
Carbohydrates
Children
Clinical trials
Colostrum
Composition
Enzymes
Essential nutrients
Feces
Food
Food consumption
Functional foods & nutraceuticals
Growth factors
Human nutrition
Immune system
Immunoglobulins
Immunology
infant nutrition
Infectious diseases
Lactoferrin
Lactose
Laxatives
mammalian species
Mammals
Milk
Nausea
Neonates
Newborn babies
Nutrients
Nutritional aspects
Peptides
Proteins
Side effects
Species
Italy
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Summary:Colostrum (or first milk) is the food produced by all the mothers in all specific mammalian species, ruminants, monogastric and marine mammalians for their newborns during the first 24–48 h post-partum. Colostrum provides to the neonate all essential nutrients necessary for the first week of life, but the effect of colostrum shows a long-term effect not limited to these first days. Colostrum is considered to be a safe and essential food for human consumption. Some young children can show at the beginning of their colostrum-based diet some side effects, such as nausea and flatulence, but they disappear quickly. In human colostrum, the immunoglobulins and lactoferrin determined show the ability to create natural immunity in newborns, reducing greatly the mortality rate in children. Recent studies suggest that bovine colostrum (BC) may be an interesting nutraceutical food, due to its ability in preventing and/or mitigating several diseases in newborns and adults. This review aims to show the nutraceutical and functional properties of colostrum produced by several mammalian species, describing the different colostrum bio-active molecules and reporting the clinical trials aimed to determine colostrum nutraceutical and therapeutic characteristics in human nutrition.
ISSN:2306-5710
2306-5710
DOI:10.3390/beverages8030054