About the Authors

Robin M. Tucker

tucker98@msu.edu

Affiliation Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

Kathryn A. Kaiser

Affiliations Office of Energetics, School of Health Professions, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Nutrition Obesity Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Mariel A. Parman

Affiliation Office of Energetics, School of Health Professions, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Brandon J. George

Affiliations Office of Energetics, School of Health Professions, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Nutrition Obesity Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

David B. Allison

Affiliations Office of Energetics, School of Health Professions, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Nutrition Obesity Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Richard D. Mattes

Affiliation Department of Nutrition Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Allison is an unpaid member of the Board of Trustees of ILSI North America and has received grants, contracts, donations, consulting fees, or promises of same from organizations with interests in fat-containing foods including the United States Department of Agriculture, Nutrition Science Institute (NuSI), United Soybean Board, National Restaurant Association, Ikea, the Kellogg Company, Biofortis, Weight Watchers, FoodMinds, LLC, Mars, PepsiCo, the Egg Board, and the National Dairy Institute. Dr. Mattes is currently conducting studies supported by the Almond Board of California, is consulting for various companies including Con Agra, Proctor & Gamble and Biofortis, and has received honoraria and travel expenses from many companies for speaking engagements. Dr. Kaiser has received a speaker honorarium from Coca-Cola Iberia. All other authors report no conflict of interest. These interests do not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RMT KAK DBA RDM. Data curation: RMT KAK MAP BJG RDM. Formal analysis: KAK MAP BJG. Funding acquisition: RMT DBA. Investigation: RMT KAK RDM. Methodology: RMT KAK MAP BJG DBA RDM. Project administration: RMT KAK RDM. Resources: RMT KAK RDM DBA. Supervision: DBA RDM. Validation: MAP BJG. Visualization: KAK. Writing – original draft: RMT KAK RDM. Writing – review & editing: RMT KAK MAP BJG DBA RDM.