About the Authors

Giles T. Hanley-Cook

Contributed equally to this work with: Giles T. Hanley-Cook, Inge Huybrechts

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Food Technology, Safety and Health, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Inge Huybrechts

Contributed equally to this work with: Giles T. Hanley-Cook, Inge Huybrechts

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

HuybrechtsI@iarc.fr (IH); Carl.Lachat@UGent.be (CL)

Affiliation Nutritional Epidemiology Group, Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France

Carine Biessy

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nutritional Methodology and Biostatistics Group, Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France

Roseline Remans

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Bioversity International, Heverlee, Belgium, Department of Agrotechnology and Food Sciences, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Gina Kennedy

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Washington, DC, United States of America

Mélanie Deschasaux-Tanguy

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sorbonne Paris Nord University, Inserm U1153, Inrae U1125, Cnam, Nutritional Epidemiology Research Team (EREN), Epidemiology and Statistics Research Center—University of Paris (CRESS), Bobigny, France

Kris A. Murray

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, MRC Unit The Gambia at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Fajara, Banjul, The Gambia

Mathilde Touvier

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sorbonne Paris Nord University, Inserm U1153, Inrae U1125, Cnam, Nutritional Epidemiology Research Team (EREN), Epidemiology and Statistics Research Center—University of Paris (CRESS), Bobigny, France

Guri Skeie

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

Emmanuelle Kesse-Guyot

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sorbonne Paris Nord University, Inserm U1153, Inrae U1125, Cnam, Nutritional Epidemiology Research Team (EREN), Epidemiology and Statistics Research Center—University of Paris (CRESS), Bobigny, France

Alemayehu Argaw

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Food Technology, Safety and Health, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, Department of Population and Family Health, Institute of Health, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia

Corinne Casagrande

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nutritional Methodology and Biostatistics Group, Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France

Geneviève Nicolas

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation

Affiliation Biomarkers Group, Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France

Paolo Vineis

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Christopher J. Millett

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Public Health Policy Evaluation Unit, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Elisabete Weiderpass

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France

Pietro Ferrari

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nutritional Methodology and Biostatistics Group, Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France

Christina C. Dahm

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

H. Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department for Determinants of Chronic Diseases (DCD), National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands

Torkjel M. Sandanger

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, UiT, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

Daniel B. Ibsen

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Heinz Freisling

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nutritional Methodology and Biostatistics Group, Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France

Stina Ramne

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

Franziska Jannasch

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Molecular Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany, German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD), München-Neuherberg, Germany, NutriAct—Competence Cluster Nutrition Research Berlin-Potsdam, Nuthetal, Germany

Yvonne T. van der Schouw

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Matthias B. Schulze

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Molecular Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany, Institute of Nutritional Sciences, University of Potsdam, Nuthetal, Germany

Konstantinos K. Tsilidis

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece

Anne Tjønneland

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Eva Ardanaz

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Navarra Public Health Institute, Pamplona, Spain, IdiSNA, Navarra Institute for Health Research, Pamplona, Spain, Biomedical Research Networking Center for Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain

Stina Bodén

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Radiation Sciences, Oncology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Lluís Cirera

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Biomedical Research Networking Center for Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain, Department of Epidemiology, Murcia Regional Health Council—IMIB-Arrixaca, Murcia, Spain, Department of Health and Social Sciences, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain

Giuliana Gargano

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan, Italy

Jytte Halkjær

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark

Paula Jakszyn

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Unit of Nutrition and Cancer, Cancer Epidemiology Research Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO-IDIBELL), L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain, Blanquerna School of Health Sciences, Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain

Ingegerd Johansson

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Dentistry, Cariology, Department of Odontology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Verena Katzke

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Giovanna Masala

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cancer Risk Factors and Life-Style Epidemiology Unit, Institute for Cancer Research, Prevention and Clinical Network (ISPRO), Florence, Italy

Salvatore Panico

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Chirurgia, Federico II University, Naples, Italy

Miguel Rodriguez-Barranco

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Biomedical Research Networking Center for Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain, Andalusian School of Public Health (EASP), Granada, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria de Granada (ibs.GRANADA), Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain

Carlotta Sacerdote

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, Città della Salute e della Scienza University-Hospital and Centre for Cancer Prevention (CPO), Turin, Italy

Bernard Srour

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Cancer Epidemiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

Rosario Tumino

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cancer Registry and Histopathology Department, Azienda Sanitaria Provinciale Ragusa (ASP 7), Ragusa, Italy

Elio Riboli

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Marc J. Gunter

Roles Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nutritional Epidemiology Group, Nutrition and Metabolism Section, International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization, Lyon, France

Andrew D. Jones

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nutritional Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Carl Lachat

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

HuybrechtsI@iarc.fr (IH); Carl.Lachat@UGent.be (CL)

Affiliation Department of Food Technology, Safety and Health, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.