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Food Ingredients

Jennewein expands human milk sugar offerings

by Melody M. Bomgardner
October 19, 2018 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 96, Issue 42

 

This illustration shows the structure of the human milk oligosaccharide 2'-Fucosyllactose.

Jennewein Biotechnologie, a German producer of rare functional sugars, has acquired former facilities of Arthus Mineralsprings to boost its fermentation production of human milk oligosaccharides, used in infant formula. Currently, Jennewein produces 2'‑fucosyllactose and lacto-N-neotetraose; the deal will add 3‑fucosyllactose, difucosyllactose, lacto-N-tetraose, 6-sialyllactose, and 3-sialyllactose. In September, the company unveiled a new route that uses simple sugars rather than lactose as feedstock.

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