About the Authors

Yansong Xue

Affiliations School of Food Science, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America, School of Food Science, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America

Hanying Zhang

Affiliation School of Food Science, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Xiaofei Sun

Affiliations School of Food Science, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America, School of Food Science, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America

Mei-Jun Zhu

meijun.zhu@wsu.edu

Affiliations School of Food Science, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America, School of Food Science, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: YX MJZ. Formal analysis: YX MJZ. Funding acquisition: MJZ. Investigation: YX HZ XS. Methodology: YX MJZ. Project administration: YX MJZ. Supervision: MJZ. Validation: YX MJZ. Writing – original draft: YX MJZ. Writing – review & editing: YX MJZ HS XS.