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Inclusion criteria: 1. Parent's or legal guardian's aged 18 years, written informed consent. 2. Infants exclusively formula fed at enrolment and parents/legal guardians have autonomously decided to exclusively formula feed until the end of intervention. 3. Infants aged 0 to 6 weeks (day 0 to day 42 inclusive). 4. Healthy term singleton infants, gestational age \~ 37 and \< 42 weeks (i.e.,\~ 41 weeks+ 6 days). Healthy is defined as no supervision or medical treatment by a medical specialist. 5. Birth weight between 2.5 - 4.5 kg (within normal range for gestational age and sex, according to WHO definitions). 6. Willing to continue using the infant formula, during the study, not switching of formula, except for medical purposes in which case the infant would be excluded. Exclusion criteria: 1. Infants with congenital condition and/or previous or current illness and (or) medication use that could interfere with the study, in the opinion of the medical doctor. 2. Infants with established or suspected cows' milk allergy, lactose intolerance, galactosaemia, or infants on a prescribed fibre-free (e.g., prebiotic oligosaccharides) diet. 3. Participation in any other studies involving investigational or marketed products concomitantly or within two weeks prior to entry into the study. 4. Investigator's uncertainty about the willingness or ability of the parents/legal guardians to comply with the protocol requirements.