Researchers at the University of Auckland are exploring the potential benefits of kūmara, a sweet potato native to New Zealand, for babies’ sleep and immune health.
Here are some great sources of prebiotics that can be found in your local grocery store, or even in your kitchen already.
If you’ve had a child who took formula as an infant, you may be familiar with milk oligosaccharides, which boost the beneficial gut flora in babies
Introducing a prebiotic called galacto-oligosaccharides (GOS) into the gut microbiome has a positive effect on gut health and greater emotional wellbeing.
A non-invasive diagnostic tool has recently been developed by a team of scientists from the U.S. and Switzerland. It measures the levels of a naturally occurring enzyme (bile salt hydrolase) inside the entire gastrointestinal tract.