FIELD: food industry.
SUBSTANCE: invention relates to application of a nutritional composition for babies. The nutritional composition represents a baby mixture or a further infant mixture containing a protein source, a lipid source and a carbohydrate source where the lipid source includes arachidonic acid in an amount ensuring 5 - 100 mg of arachidonic acid per 1 kg for the said infant daily while the content of protein is less than 1.85 g/100 kcal; the said nutritional composition contains no docosahexaenoic acid (DHA).
EFFECT: proposed is application of arachidonic acid in production of a nutritional composition to be fed to infants during the first 3 years of their life to reduce the risk of insulin resistance development later in the lifecycle.
16 cl, 5 dwg, 4 tbl, 3 ex
