About the Authors

Karley K. Mahalak

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Karley.Mahalak@usda.gov

Affiliation Dairy and Functional Foods Research Unit, Eastern Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, United States of America Department of Agriculture, Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Adrienne B. Narrowe

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

Affiliation Dairy and Functional Foods Research Unit, Eastern Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, United States of America Department of Agriculture, Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, United States of America

LinShu Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dairy and Functional Foods Research Unit, Eastern Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, United States of America Department of Agriculture, Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jenni Firrman

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dairy and Functional Foods Research Unit, Eastern Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, United States of America Department of Agriculture, Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Johanna M. S. Lemons

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dairy and Functional Foods Research Unit, Eastern Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, United States of America Department of Agriculture, Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Pieter Van den Abbeele

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

Affiliation Cryptobiotix SA, Ghent, Belgium

Aurélien Baudot

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

Affiliation Cryptobiotix SA, Ghent, Belgium

Yuanhang Yao

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Yanfang Li

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Liangli Yu

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

This work was supported by the USDA In-House Project 8072-41000-108-00-D, “In Vitro Human Intestinal Microbial Ecosystems: Effect of Diet”. This research used resources provided by the SCINet project of the USDA Agricultural Research Service, ARS project number 0500-00093-001-11-D. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.