Can Synbiotic Dietary Pattern Predict Strains in Breast Milk?

Human milk potentially includes probiotic , an order of gram-positive bacteria that have the ability to ferment sugars to lactic acid. These bioactive agents may be affected by maternal dietary patterns. This study aimed to find out significant dietary patterns and their relation with the current presence of available levels in breast milk. This comparative study was done in a clinic in Isfahan, Iran. A total number of 345 healthy mothers were assessed for major dietary patterns. Among identified patterns, two main patterns (synbiotic,  = 41; Western,  = 132) were selected for comparison. colonies were then counted in the breast milk samples. Analysis of covariance test was used to analyze the association between dietary patterns and breastfeeding. Two significant dietary patterns (synbiotic and Western) were identified through the factor analysis method. These patterns accounted for 34.41% of the cumulative variance in food groups (synbiotic pattern, 12.77%; Western pattern, 21.64%). Synbiotic dietary pattern () was related to higher counts (5.3 ± 1.4 log CFU/g), whereas the lower number of were detected from Western dietary pattern () (3.3 ± 1.9 log CFU/g;  < 0.05). and can affect the population; so, probiotic strains especially may be improved by healthy . This association should be confirmed by clinical trials.