About the Authors
- Takumi Tochio
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Contributed equally to this work with: Takumi Tochio, Yasuyuki Kitaura
Affiliation B Food Science Co., Ltd., Chita, Aichi, Japan
- Yasuyuki Kitaura
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Contributed equally to this work with: Takumi Tochio, Yasuyuki Kitaura
Affiliation Laboratory of Nutritional Biochemistry, Department of Applied Molecular Biosciences, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
- Saki Nakamura
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Affiliation B Food Science Co., Ltd., Chita, Aichi, Japan
- Chie Sugawa
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Affiliation B Food Science Co., Ltd., Chita, Aichi, Japan
- Motoki Takahashi
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Affiliation Laboratory of Nutritional Biochemistry, Department of Applied Molecular Biosciences, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
- Akihito Endo
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Affiliation Department of Food and Cosmetic Science, Faculty of Bioindustry, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Abashiri, Hokkaido, Japan
- Yoshiharu Shimomura
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* E-mail: shimo@agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Affiliation Laboratory of Nutritional Biochemistry, Department of Applied Molecular Biosciences, Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Competing Interests
The project was partially funded by the B Food Science Co., Ltd., to YS. TT, SN, and CS are employed by the Food Science Co., Ltd. There are no declarations relating to consultancy, patents or products in development or marketed products with regard to this work. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: TT YS. Data curation: YK TT AE YS. Formal analysis: YK. Funding acquisition: YS. Investigation: YK SN CS AE MT. Methodology: YS YK. Project administration: YS. Resources: TT. Software: YK. Supervision: YS. Validation: YS YK. Visualization: YS. Writing – original draft: TT. Writing – review & editing: YS.