British Journal of Nutrition is an international peer-reviewed journal that publishes original papers and review articles across the full spectrum of nutritional science. The focus of all manuscripts submitted to the journal should be to increase knowledge in nutritional science relevant to human or animal nutrition. The BJN welcomes manuscripts that report studies in nutritional epidemiology, nutritional requirements, metabolic studies, body composition, energetics, appetite and obesity. Manuscripts that address interactions of nutrition with endocrinology, genetics, immunology, microbiology, molecular and cell biology, neuroscience and physiology and that report outcomes relevant to health, behaviour and well-being are also within scope for the BJN.

>> Molecular Nutrition
a. Sensitivity and reliability of zinc transporter and metallothionein gene expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cells as indicators of zinc status: responses to ex vivo zinc exposure and habitual zinc intake in humans
Stephen R. Hennigar, Alyssa M. Kelley, Bradley J. Anderson, Nicholes J. Armstrong, Holly L. McClung, Claire E. Berryman, J. Philip Karl, James P. McClung

b. Does polymorphisms in PPAR and APOE genes modify associations between fatty acid desaturase (FADS), n-3 long-chain PUFA and cardiometabolic markers in 8–11-year-old Danish children?
Camilla T. Damsgaard, Stine Vuholm, Marie N. Teisen, Ken D. Stark, Lotte Lauritzen

c. Supercritical carbon dioxide extracts of small cardamom and yellow mustard seeds have fasting hypoglycaemic effects: diabetic rat, predictive iHOMA2 models and molecular docking study
Kaninika Paul, Soumi Chakraborty, Priyanka Mallick, Paramita Bhattacharjee, Tapan Kumar Pal, Nilendra Chatterjee, Saikat Chakrabarti

>> Metabolism and Metabolic Studies
Select Multi-criteria assessment of pea protein quality in rats: a comparison between casein, gluten and pea protein alone or supplemented with methionine
Multi-criteria assessment of pea protein quality in rats: a comparison between casein, gluten and pea protein alone or supplemented with methionine
Florence M. Guillin, Claire Gaudichon, Laetitia Guérin-Deremaux, Catherine Lefranc-Millot, Dalila Azzout-Marniche, Nadezda Khodorova, Juliane Calvez

>> Nutritional Endocrinology
a. Select Glucagon-like peptide-1 response to whey protein is less diminished by dipeptidyl peptidase-4 in comparison with responses to dextrin, a lipid and casein in rats
Glucagon-like peptide-1 response to whey protein is less diminished by dipeptidyl peptidase-4 in comparison with responses to dextrin, a lipid and casein in rats
Yuki Shimizu, Hiroshi Hara, Tohru Hira

b. Select Dietary valine levels affect growth, protein utilisation, immunity and antioxidant status in juvenile hybrid grouper (Epinephelus fuscoguttatus ♀ × Epinephelus lanceolatus ♂)
Dietary valine levels affect growth, protein utilisation, immunity and antioxidant status in juvenile hybrid grouper (Epinephelus fuscoguttatus ♀ × Epinephelus lanceolatus ♂)
Zhiyu Zhou, Xiaoyi Wu, Delbert M. Gatlin III, Xiao Wang, Wei Mu, Bo Ye, Lei Ma

>> Human and Clinical Nutrition
a. Select DHA supplementation in infants born preterm and the effect on attention at 18 months’ corrected age: follow-up of a subset of the N3RO randomised controlled trial
DHA supplementation in infants born preterm and the effect on attention at 18 months’ corrected age: follow-up of a subset of the N3RO randomised controlled trial
Erandi Hewawasam, Carmel T. Collins, Beverly S. Muhlhausler, Lisa N. Yelland, Lisa G. Smithers, John Colombo, Maria Makrides, Andrew J. McPhee, Jacqueline F. Gould

b. Intake of Calanus finmarchicus oil for 12 weeks improves omega-3 index in healthy older subjects engaging in an exercise programme
Paulina Wasserfurth, Josefine Nebl, Tim Konstantin Boßlau, Karsten Krüger, Andreas Hahn, Jan Philipp Schuchardt

>> Dietary Surveys and Nutritional Epidemiology
a. Select Dietary betaine intake is associated with skeletal muscle mass change over 3 years in middle-aged adults: the Guangzhou Nutrition and Health Study
Dietary betaine intake is associated with skeletal muscle mass change over 3 years in middle-aged adults: the Guangzhou Nutrition and Health Study
Jing-An Long, Rong-Huan Zhong, Si Chen, Fan Wang, Yun Luo, Xiao-Ting Lu, Dinuerguli Yishake, Yu-Ming Chen, Ai-Ping Fang, Hui-Lian Zhu

b. Very high prevalence of 25-hydroxyvitamin D deficiency in 6433 UK South Asian adults: analysis of the UK Biobank Cohort
Andrea L. Darling, David J. Blackbourn, Kourosh R. Ahmadi, Susan A. Lanham-New

c. Higher flavonoid intake is associated with a lower progression risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in adults: a prospective study
Qing-wei Zhong, Yan-yan Wu, Feng Xiong, Meng Liu, Yu-ping Liu, Cheng Wang, Yu-ming Chen

d. Select A negative association of dietary advanced glycation end products with obesity and body composition in Iranian adults
A negative association of dietary advanced glycation end products with obesity and body composition in Iranian adults
Parivash Ghorbaninejad, Kurosh Djafarian, Nadia Babaee, Samira Davarzani, Mojdeh Ebaditabar, Cain C.T. Clark, Sakineh Shab-Bidar