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Optimal nutrition is becoming ever more important in a world where the infant gut microbiome is exposed to extreme challenges from day one of life, due to habitually medicalised deliveries.

Danone has developed a synbiotic supplement for pregnant and lactating mothers to prevent the common, inflammation-driven issue of mastitis.

And turn Danone around.

Making the yogurt of the future requires a cast of 21st-century helpers: machine learning, gut science and even a mysterious artificial stomach.

At a new Danone facility near Paris, researchers feed dollops of yogurt into globular glass vessels and plastic tubes designed to mimic the human gut. Once the bacteria inside show they can survive the digestive juices, artificial intelligence is put to work to probe their potential health benefits.

Making the yoghurt of the future requires a cast of 21st-century helpers: machine learning, gut science and even a mysterious artificial stomach.

Although less established than probiotics or prebiotics, functional foods containing synbiotics are expected to grow in popularity.