About the Authors

Elie-Jacques Fares

Contributed equally to this work with: Elie-Jacques Fares, Marie Claire Chamieh

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Nutrition and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Sherbrooke, Canada

Maria Abou Mourad

Roles Resources

Affiliation Nutrition and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Marco Bardus

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Department of Applied Health Sciences, School of Health Sciences, College of Medicine and Health, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, United Kingdom

Sarah Zaki

Roles Resources

Affiliation Nutrition and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Marie Claire Chamieh

Contributed equally to this work with: Elie-Jacques Fares, Marie Claire Chamieh

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

mc31@aub.edu.lb

Affiliation Nutrition and Food Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.