About the Authors

Roosmarijn Verstraeten

rverstraeten@itg.be

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

Jef L. Leroy

Affiliation Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, DC, United States of America

Zuzanna Pieniak

Affiliations Consumer and Sensory Research Institute Ltd (IBKiS), Warsaw, Poland, Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Angélica Ochoa-Avilès

Affiliation Departamento de Biociencias, Universidad de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador

Michelle Holdsworth

Affiliation Public Health section, School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Wim Verbeke

Affiliation Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Lea Maes

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Patrick Kolsteren

Current address: Department of Food Safety and Food Quality, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RV AOA LM MH PK. Performed the experiments: RV AOA. Analyzed the data: RV ZP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RV ZP. Wrote the paper: RV JL ZP AOA MH LM WV PK. Assisted in the interpretation of the data: LM JL WV MH.