About the Authors

Lieven Huybregts

Contributed equally to this work with: Lieven Huybregts, Freddy Houngbé

lieven.huybregts@ugent.be

Affiliations Department of Food Safety and Food Quality, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, Department of Food Safety and Food Quality, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Freddy Houngbé

Contributed equally to this work with: Lieven Huybregts, Freddy Houngbé

Affiliations Department of Food Safety and Food Quality, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, Action Contre la Faim, Paris, France

Cécile Salpéteur

Affiliation Action Contre la Faim, Paris, France

Rebecca Brown

Affiliation Action Contre la Faim, Paris, France

Dominique Roberfroid

Affiliation Child Health and Nutrition Unit, Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Myriam Ait-Aissa

Affiliation Action Contre la Faim, Paris, France

Patrick Kolsteren

Affiliations Department of Food Safety and Food Quality, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, Child Health and Nutrition Unit, Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LH RB CS MAA DR PK. Performed the experiments: FH. Analyzed the data: FH LH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FH LH PK. Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: FH LH. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: LH FH RB CS MAA DR PK. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: LH FH RB CS MAA DR PK. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: LH FH RB CS MAA DR PK. Enrolled patients: FH.