Infants who were started on solid foods at or before three months of age showed changes in the levels of gut bacteria and bacterial byproducts, called short-chain fatty acids, measured in their stool samples, according to a study from researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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The full research article (“Timing of complementary feeding is associated with gut microbiota diversity and composition and short chain fatty acid concentrations over the first year of life”) is available online at: https://bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12866-020-01723-9
Thank you for the link!
Interesting article. I’m curious… Would this include thickeners like rice cereal, oatmeal etc in young infants?
I don’t know for sure but my guess would be yes.