About the Authors

Yuki Hikihara

hikihara.yuki@it-chiba.ac.jp

Affiliation Faculty of Engineering, Chiba Institute of Technology, Chiba, Japan

Chiaki Tanaka

Affiliation Division of Integrated Sciences, J. F. Oberlin University, Tokyo, Japan

Yoshitake Oshima

Affiliation Faculty of Service Industries, University of Marketing and Distribution Science, Hyogo, Japan

Kazunori Ohkawara

Affiliation Faculty of Informatics and Engineering, University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo Japan

Kazuko Ishikawa-Takata

Affiliation Department of Nutritional Education, National Institute of Health and Nutrition, Tokyo Japan

Shigeho Tanaka

Affiliation Department of Nutritional Science, National Institute of Health and Nutrition, Tokyo Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YH CT KO KI ST. Performed the experiments: YH CT KO KI ST. Analyzed the data: YH YO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YH CT YO ST. Wrote the paper: YH ST.