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. Interactions between dietary carbohydrate and thiamine: implications on the growth performance and intestinal mitochondrial biogenesis and function of Megalobrama amblycephala
Chao Xu, Yuan-You Li, Paul B. Brown, Wen-Bin Liu, Liu-Ling Gao, Zhi-Rong Ding, Xiang-Fei Li, Di-Zhi Xie

b. Impact of maternal obesity and prebiotic supplementation on select maternal milk microRNA levels and correlation with offspring outcomes
Dana E. Lowry, Heather A. Paul, Raylene A. Reimer

>> Metabolism and Metabolic Studies
a. Consumption of phenolic-rich jabuticaba (Myrciaria jaboticaba) powder ameliorates obesity-related disorders in mice
Patrícia Leticia Trindade, Elaine dos Ramos Soares, Kim Ohanna Pimenta Inada, Fabiane Ferreira Martins, Martina Rudnicki, Daniel Perrone, Mariana Monteiro, Vanessa Souza-Mello, Julio Beltrame Daleprane

b. Saccharomyces cerevisiae boulardii CNCM I-1079 supplementation in finishing male pigs helps to cope with heat stress through feeding behaviour and gut microbiota modulation
Etienne Labussière, Caroline Achard, Serge Dubois, Sylvie Combes, Mathieu Castex, David Renaudeau

>> Nutritional Endocrinology
a. Relationship between seaweeds consumption and hyperuricaemia in general adults: a Population-based study from the Tianjin Chronic Low-grade Systemic Inflammation and Health (TCLSIH) cohort study
Tingjing Zhang, Yawen Wang, Yeqing Gu, Ge Meng, Qing Zhang, Li Liu, Hongmei Wu, Shunming Zhang, Xuena Wang, Shaomei Sun, Xing Wang, Ming Zhou, Huanli Jiao, Qiyu Jia, Kun Song, Yuntang Wu, Xiao-Hui Wu, Kaijun Niu

b. Select Bitter melon fruit extract enhances intracellular ATP production and insulin secretion from rat pancreatic β-cells
Bitter melon fruit extract enhances intracellular ATP production and insulin secretion from rat pancreatic β-cells
Takumi Shimada, Fumihiro Kato, Dinia Rizqi Dwijayanti, Takuma Nagata, Akito Kinoshita, Tetsuya Okuyama, Mikio Nishizawa, Eri Mukai

>> Nutritional Immunology
a. n-3 long-chain PUFA promote antibacterial and inflammation-resolving effects in Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected C3HeB/FeJ mice, dependent on fatty acid status
Arista Nienaber, Mumin Ozturk, Robin Dolman, Renee Blaauw, Lizelle L. Zandberg, Simone van Rensburg, Melinda Britz, Frank E. A. Hayford, Frank Brombacher, Du Toit Loots, Cornelius M. Smuts, Suraj P. Parihar, Linda Malan

b. Important roles of amino acids in immune responses
Peng Li, Guoyao Wu

>> Microbiology
Select Maternal supplementation with Bacillus altitudinis spores improves porcine offspring growth performance and carcass weight
Maternal supplementation with Bacillus altitudinis spores improves porcine offspring growth performance and carcass weight
Daniel Crespo-Piazuelo, Gillian E. Gardiner, Samir Ranjitkar, Meike A. Bouwhuis, Rebecca Ham, John P. Phelan, Alan Marsh, Peadar G. Lawlor

>> Human and Clinical Nutrition
a. Nutritional considerations of a paediatric gluten-free food guide for coeliac disease
Diana R. Mager, Samantha Cyrkot, Christine Lirette, Herbert Brill, Jenna Dowhaniuk, Heather Mileski, Carlota Basualdo-Hammond, Roseann Nasser, Esther Assor, Margaret Marcon, Justine M. Turner

b. The relationship between famine exposure during early life and ascending aorta dilatation in adults
Yu-Qing Huang, Lin Liu, Kenneth Ka Ho Lo, Yu-Ling Yu, Chao-Lei Chen, Jia-Yi Huang, Bin Zhang, Ying-qing Feng

>> Dietary Surveys and Nutritional Epidemiology
Select The prevalence and influencing factors of anaemia among pre-pregnant women in mainland China: a large population-based, cross-sectional study
The prevalence and influencing factors of anaemia among pre-pregnant women in mainland China: a large population-based, cross-sectional study
Jun Zhao, Xiaoyue Zhu, Qiaoyun Dai, Xiang Hong, Hongguang Zhang, Kaiping Huang, Yuanyuan Wang, Xueying Yang, Yue Zhang, Zuoqi Peng, Ya Zhang, Yan Xuan, Qiaomei Wang, Haiping Shen, Yiping Zhang, Donghai Yan, Bei Wang, Xu Ma

>> Behaviour, Appetite and Obesity
a. Does adaptive thermogenesis occur after weight loss in adults? A systematic review
Catarina L. Nunes, Nuno Casanova, Ruben Francisco, Anja Bosy-Westphal, Mark Hopkins, Luís B. Sardinha, Analiza M. Silva

b. Food insecurity (hunger) and fast-food consumption among 180 164 adolescents aged 12–15 years from sixty-eight countries
Lee Smith, Yvonne Barnett, Guillermo F. López-Sánchez, Jae Il Shin, Louis Jacob, Laurie Butler, Chao Cao, Lin Yang, Felipe Schuch, Mark Tully, Ai Koyanagi

>> Letter to the Editor
a. Zinc supplementation and inflammatory cytokines
Alireza Jafari, Saeed Ghobadi

b. Invited letter to editor in response to profiling inflammatory cytokines following zinc supplementation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
Amir Hossein Faghfouri, Behzad Baradaran, Alireza Khabbazi, Yaser Khaje Bishak, Meysam Zarezadeh, Omid Mohammad Tavakoli-Rouzbehani, Elnaz Faghfuri, Laleh Payahoo, Maedeh Alipour, Beitullah Alipour