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. Glucose-lowering activity of dark tea protein extract by modulating spleen–brain axis of diabetic mice
Keying Su, Xinliang Mao, Xuewu Zhang

b. Effects of Zingiber officinale extract supplementation on metabolic and genotoxic parameters in diet-induced obesity in mice
Thaís Fernandes Luciano, Claudio Teodoro De Souza, Ricardo Aurino Pinho, Schérolin de Oliveira Marques, Gabriel Paulino Luiz, Natalia dos Santos Tramontin, Paulo Cesar Lock da Silveira, Vanessa Moraes de Andrade, Alexandre Pastoris Muller

>> Metabolism and Metabolic Studies
Associations between untargeted plasma metabolomic signatures and gut microbiota composition in the Milieu Intérieur population of healthy adults
Valentin Partula, Mélanie Deschasaux-Tanguy, Stanislas Mondot, Agnès Victor-Bala, Nadia Bouchemal, Lucie Lécuyer, Christine Bobin-Dubigeon, Marion J. Torres, Emmanuelle Kesse-Guyot, Bruno Charbit, Etienne Patin, Karen E. Assmann, Paule Latino-Martel, Chantal Julia, Pilar Galan, Serge Hercberg, Lluis Quintana-Murci, Matthew L. Albert, Darragh Duffy, Olivier Lantz, Philippe Savarin, Mohamed Nawfal Triba, Mathilde Touvier, The Milieu Intérieur Consortium

>> Nutritional Immunology
a. Manno-oligosaccharide attenuates inflammation and intestinal epithelium injury in weaned pigs upon enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli K88 challenge
En Yu, Daiwen Chen, Bing Yu, Zhiqing Huang, Xiangbing Mao, Ping Zheng, Yuheng Luo, Heng Yin, Jie Yu, Junqiu Luo, Hui Yan, Jun He

b. Maternal dietary linoleic acid altered intestinal barrier function in domestic pigeons (Columba livia)
Qianqian Xu, Jiashu Wen, Xiaoming Wang, Xiaoting Zou, Xinyang Dong

>>Human and Clinical Nutrition
a. Differential associations between a priori diet quality scores and markers of cardiovascular health in women: cross-sectional analyses from TwinsUK
Olatz Mompeo, Sarah E. Berry, Tim D. Spector, Cristina Menni, Massimo Mangino, Rachel Gibson

b. Select Lutein supplementation combined with a low-calorie diet in middle-aged obese individuals: effects on anthropometric indices, body composition and metabolic parameters
Lutein supplementation combined with a low-calorie diet in middle-aged obese individuals: effects on anthropometric indices, body composition and metabolic parameters
Fatemeh Hajizadeh-Sharafabad, Ali Tarighat-Esfanjani, Zohreh Ghoreishi, Mehrnoosh Sarreshtedari

c. Select Interaction of neutrophil counts and folic acid treatment on new-onset proteinuria in hypertensive patients
Interaction of neutrophil counts and folic acid treatment on new-onset proteinuria in hypertensive patients
Zhuxian Zhang, Mengyi Liu, Yuanyuan Zhang, Chun Zhou, Panpan He, Huan Li, Jianping Li, Yan Zhang, Min Liang, Binyan Wang, Xin Xu, Xiaobin Wang, Yong Huo, Fan Fan Hou, Jing Nie, Xiping Xu, Xianhui Qin

>> Dietary Surveys and Nutritional Epidemiology
a. Effect of a healthy eating intervention in the first months of life on ultraprocessed food consumption at the age of 4–7 years: a randomised clinical trial with adolescent mothers and their infants
Part of: Ultra-processed foods
Bruna Lazzeri, Vanessa Bielefeldt Leotti, Betina Soldateli, Elsa Regina Giugliani, Carlos Augusto Monteiro, Eurídice Martinez Steele, Luana Giongo Pedrotti, Michele Drehmer

b. Data-driven development of the Meal-based Diet History Questionnaire for Japanese adults
Kentaro Murakami, Nana Shinozaki, Tracy A. McCaffrey, M. Barbara E. Livingstone, Satoshi Sasaki

c. Associations of carbohydrates and carbohydrate-rich foods with incidence of type 2 diabetes
Kjell Olsson, Stina Ramne, Esther González-Padilla, Ulrika Ericson, Emily Sonestedt

d. Nature of the evidence base and frameworks underpinning dietary recommendations for prevention of non-communicable diseases: a position paper from the Academy of Nutrition Sciences
Christine M. Williams, Margaret Ashwell, Ann Prentice, Mary Hickson, Sara Stanner

e. Dietary iron intake and the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus in middle-aged and older adults in urban China: a prospective cohort study
Shu-Yi Li, Fan Wang, Xiao-Ting Lu, Rong-Huan Zhong, Jing-An Long, Ai-Ping Fang, Hui-Lian Zhu

f. Association between dairy product intake and body composition among South Asian adults from the Mediators of Atherosclerosis in South Asians Living in America (MASALA) study
Bridget Murphy, Sameera A. Talegawkar, Joyce O’Connor, Namratha R. Kandula, Alka M. Kanaya, Matthew A. Allison, Niyati Parekh

>> Behaviour, Appetite and Obesity
Daily energy expenditure in rats following structured exercise training is affected by dietary phosphorus content
S. W. Sawaya, M. E. Ragi, A. A. Eid, O. A. Obeid