About the Authors

Rie Mukai

Affiliation Department of Food Science, Institute of Health Biosciences, University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Hitomi Horikawa

Affiliation Department of Food Science, Institute of Health Biosciences, University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Yutaka Fujikura

Affiliation Department of Food Science, Institute of Health Biosciences, University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Tomoyuki Kawamura

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Institute of Health Biosciences, University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Hisao Nemoto

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Institute of Health Biosciences, University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Takeshi Nikawa

Affiliation Department of Nutritional Physiology, Institute of Health Biosciences, University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Junji Terao

terao@nutr.med.tokushima-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Food Science, Institute of Health Biosciences, University of Tokushima Graduate School, Tokushima, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RM JT. Performed the experiments: RM HH YF. Analyzed the data: RM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TK HN TN. Wrote the paper: RM JT.