About the Authors

Kazim Sahin

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

nsahinkm@yahoo.com

Affiliation Department of Animal Nutrition and Nutritional Disorders, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Firat University, Elazig, Turkey

Cemal Orhan

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Animal Nutrition and Nutritional Disorders, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Firat University, Elazig, Turkey

Mehmet Tuzcu

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

Affiliation Division of Biology, Faculty of Science, Firat University, Elazig, Turkey

Armagan Hayirli

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Animal Nutrition and Nutritional Disorders, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Atatürk University, Erzurum, Turkey

James R. Komorowski

Roles Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Scientific and Regulatory Affairs, Nutrition 21 Inc, New York, United States of America

Nurhan Sahin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Animal Nutrition and Nutritional Disorders, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Firat University, Elazig, Turkey

Competing Interests

Tested product was donated by “Nutrition 21 Inc”. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.