Table 3.
Human milk oligosaccharide mean concentrations reported in the literature for both transitional and mature milk about six months post partum (mg/L, except for Austin et al. [20], which is mg/kg).
| Reference | Milk (Post Partum) | n | 3’SL | 6’SL | 6’SLN | DSL | 3’S3FL | LSTa/b | LSTc | 2’FL | 3FL | LNnT | LNT | Total LNFP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Larsson et al. [41] a,b Denmark | Mature (5 month) | 15 | 492 | 156 | 149 | 33 | 2989 | 229 | 578 | 703 | 2692 | |||
| Coppa et al. [42] Italy | Transition (4 days) | 18 | 3930 | 340 | 2040 | 840 | 1650 | |||||||
| Bao et al. [43] USA | Transition (9–21 days) | 76 | 396 | 74 c | 148 | |||||||||
| Austin et al. [20] (Table 4) China | Transition (5–11 days) | 90 | 110 | 340 | 2600 | 510 | 180 | 880 | 1157 | |||||
| Mature (4–8 months) | 90 | 83 | 45 | 1300 | 1300 | 59 | 250 | 199 | ||||||
| Ma et al. [21] China | Transition (14 days) | 20 | 100 | 593 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 127 | 941 | 1281 | 543 | 1033 | 1979 | 1870 |
| Mature (6 months) | 20 | 127 | 83 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 33 | 47 | 704 | 1476 | 446 | 785 | 945 | |
| Ma et al. [21] Malaysia | Mature (6 months) | 21 | 135 | 84 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 84 | 145 | 1003 | 1146 | 571 | 867 | 1036 |
| This study UAE | Transition (6–14 days) | 41 | 226 | 621 | 15 | 2 | 19 | 104 | 488 | 2021 | 581 | 765 | 1429 | 1932 |
| This study UAE | Mature (6 months) | 40 | 134 | 91 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 31 | 11 | 997 | 1194 | 250 | 504 | 650 |
a secretors only. b calculated from nmol/mL data. c LSTb alone.