About the Authors

David J. Wrigglesworth

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

David.wrigglesworth@effem.com

Affiliation Waltham Petcare Science Institute, Waltham-on the-Wolds, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

Elisha Goonatilleke

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Validation

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of California—Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Richard Haydock

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Waltham Petcare Science Institute, Waltham-on the-Wolds, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

Kevin R. Hughes

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Current address: IP and Commercialisation Office, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Affiliation Waltham Petcare Science Institute, Waltham-on the-Wolds, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

Carlito B. Lebrilla

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemistry, University of California—Davis, Davis, California, United States of America

Kelly S. Swanson

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Nutritional Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

Paul Jones

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Nexalist Consulting, Tinwell, Rutland, United Kingdom

Affiliation Mars Incorporated, Mclean, Virginia, United States of America

Phillip Watson

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Waltham Petcare Science Institute, Waltham-on the-Wolds, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

This work was funded by Mars, Incorporated, the employer of DW, RH, KH, PJ and PW. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.