About the Authors

Lukas Schwingshackl

lukas.schwingshackl@dife.de

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Nuthetal, Germany

Georg Hoffmann

Affiliation Department of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Carolina Schwedhelm

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Nuthetal, Germany

Tamara Kalle-Uhlmann

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Nuthetal, Germany

Benjamin Missbach

Affiliation Department of Nutritional Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Sven Knüppel

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Nuthetal, Germany

Heiner Boeing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Nuthetal, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LS TKU SK HB. Performed the experiments: LS TKU. Analyzed the data: LS TKU. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LS TKU. Wrote the paper: LS GH CS TKU BM SK HB.