About the Authors

Naoto Kudo

Affiliation Department of Bio-science and Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology, 307 Fukasaku, Munumaku, Saitama, 337–8570, Japan

Yasunori Arai

Affiliation Department of Bio-science and Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology, 307 Fukasaku, Munumaku, Saitama, 337–8570, Japan

Yoshitomo Suhara

Affiliation Department of Bio-science and Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology, 307 Fukasaku, Munumaku, Saitama, 337–8570, Japan

Takeshi Ishii

Affiliation Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Shizuoka, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka 422–8526, Japan

Tsutomu Nakayama

Affiliation School of Food Science and Technology, Nippon Veterinary and Life Science University, Musashinoshi, Tokyo, 180–8602, Japan

Naomi Osakabe

nao-osa@sic.shibaura-it.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Bio-science and Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology, 307 Fukasaku, Munumaku, Saitama, 337–8570, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NO NK TI TN YS. Performed the experiments: NK YA YS. Analyzed the data: NK YA YS. Wrote the paper: NO.