SELECTION OF A NUTRITIONAL COMPOSITION CAPABLE OF PROMOTING HEALTH

摘要

The invention relates to the area of food items and the development of nutritional compositions having beneficial effects on human health, such as increasing resistance and protection against diseases. The invention provides a method based on bacterial species profiling to determine whether an (infant) nutritional composition comprising probiotic micro-organisms has a health promoting effect on the human body, in particular increasing resistance against (common) infections of the gastro-intestinal (GI) and/or respiratory tract. Also provided is a microarray device for use in such method.