Baby formula boost: can a nutrient blend make infants smarter?

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: 1. Infants between 45 to 60 days of age at enrolment 2. Infant's ≥ 37 completed weeks of gestation, with a birth weight of ≥ 2.5 kg and ≤ 4.5 kg and singleton born. 3. Infants generally healthy at birth with an Apgar score ≥7 at 5 min 4. Exclusively formula fed for at least 14 days before randomization and the choice of formula feeding has been taken by the parents before the beginning of the trial 5. Signed informed consent obtained for infant's and parents' participation in the study 6. Parents of infant agree not to enrol infant in another interventional clinical research study while participating in this study 7. Parent of infant agrees to provide to their infants the study formula and not replace it with another commercial formula. 8. Parent of the infant is of legal age of consent, must understand the informed consent form and other study documents, willing and able to fulfil the requirements of the study protocol. 9. Parent of infant can be contacted directly by telephone or email throughout the study. Exclusion Criteria: 1. History of underlying metabolic or chronic disease; congenital malformation; or any other condition which, in the opinion of the investigator, is likely to interfere with: the ability of the infant to ingest food, the normal growth and development of the infant, or the evaluation of the infant. 2. Evidence of feeding difficulties or formula intolerance, such as vomiting or poor intake, at time of randomization (at investigator discretion) 3. Infants with known or suspected intolerance to cow milk infant formula or allergy 4. The infant is identified to have a chromosomal or major congenital anomaly or significant medical and/or genetic conditions that interferes with adequate functioning in daily life or likely to interfere with normal growth and development or with the normal maturation of visual or cognitive function (including visual/hearing impairment), known head or brain disease, injury such as microcephaly or macrocephaly, immunocompromised or suffered from significant illness, developmental delay or disability 5. Infants who have been adopted or are foster infants 6. Infants born to mothers with chronic illness, such as HIV disease, renal or hepatic disease, type 1 or type 2 diabetes, alcoholism, or substance abuse 7. Presence of a first degree relative with neurologic or psychiatric diseases (e.g., attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, autism, behavioural problems, bipolar disorder, depression, intellectual disability, or schizophrenia).