IntEncap™ branded microencapsulation products offer high LCPUFAs concentrations suitable for product application at all stages of life. EPA, DHA and ARA long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFAs), are a special type of fatty acid. They each play an important role in our bodies and health throughout our lifetimes. Most people cannot naturally produce enough so they have to be obtained through the diet.
Two LCPUFAs, DHA and ARA play very important roles in early brain and eye development.6,7 The levels of DHA and ARA in the brain rapidly increase during the last trimester of pregnancy and throughout the first two years of life. Infants and young children create very little DHA and ARA, so they need to get it from breast milk and/or infant formula.
The European Food Safety Authority recommends 140 mg ARA for infants aged up to 6-months and 100 mg of DHA for infants and toddlers from birth up to 2 years of age.8 Reference