About the Authors

Marcos M. Invernici

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Periodontology, School of Dentistry of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo – USP, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil

Flávia A. C. Furlaneto

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

flafurlaneto@usp.br

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Periodontology, School of Dentistry of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo – USP, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil

Sérgio L. Salvador

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Analyses, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo – USP, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil

Arthur C. Ouwehand

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

Affiliation Dupont, Nutrition and Health, Kantvik, Finland

Seppo Salminen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Functional Foods Forum, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

Anastasia Mantziari

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Functional Foods Forum, University of Turku, Turku, Finland

Gabriel Vinderola

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Instituto de Lactología Industrial (UNL-CONICET), National University of the Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina

Edilson Ervolino

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Histology, Department of Basic Sciences, Dental School of Araçatuba, São Paulo State University, São Paulo, Brazil

Sandro Isaías Santana

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Periodontology, School of Dentistry of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo – USP, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil

Pedro Henrique Felix Silva

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

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Periodontology, School of Dentistry of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo – USP, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil

Michel R. Messora

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

Affiliation Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Periodontology, School of Dentistry of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo – USP, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil

Competing Interests

E.I DuPont de Nemours & Co. Danisco Sweeteners Oy provided financial support in the form of a salary for ACO and donated probiotics. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.