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.

>> Metabolism and Metabolic Studies
a. Intermittent fasting promotes adipocyte mitochondrial fusion through Sirt3-mediated deacetylation of Mdh2
Yizhou Li, Juntong Liang, Xin Tian, Qi Chen, Longbo Zhu, Han Wang, Zunhai Liu, Xulei Dai, Chenqi Bian, Chao Sun

b. Intermittent fasting and bone health: a bone of contention?
David J. Clayton, Ian Varley, Maria Papageorgiou

c. Prolonged fasting outperforms short-term fasting in terms of glucose tolerance and insulin release: a randomised controlled trial
Rima Solianik, Katerina Židonienė, Nerijus Eimantas, Marius Brazaitis

>> Nutritional Endocrinology
The cluster of differentiation 36 (CD36) rs1761667 polymorphism interacts with dietary patterns to affect cardiometabolic risk factors and metabolic syndrome risk in apparently healthy individuals
Zeinab Yazdanpanah, Amin Salehi-Abargouei, Mehdi Mollahosseini, Mohammad Hasan Sheikhha, Masoud Mirzaei, Hassan Mozaffari-Khosravi

>> Human and Clinical Nutrition
a. Habitual consumption of high-fibre bread fortified with bean hulls increased plasma indole-3-propionic concentration and decreased putrescine and deoxycholic acid faecal concentrations in healthy volunteers
Marietta Sayegh, Qian Qian Ni, Viren Ranawana, Vassilios Raikos, Nicholas J. Hayward, Helen E. Hayes, Gary Duncan, Louise Cantlay, Freda Farquharson, Michael Solvang, Graham W. Horgan, Petra Louis, Wendy R. Russell, Miriam Clegg, Frank Thies, Madalina Neacsu

b. Association between maternal metabolic profiles in pregnancy, dietary patterns during lactation and breast milk leptin: a retrospective cohort study
Chen Yang, Qianying Guo, Mingxuan Cui, Xuening Li, Jinjuan Zhang, Xiaoyu Peng, Jufen Liu, Peng Liu, Linlin Wang

c. Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D response to vitamin D supplementation using different lipid delivery systems in middle-aged and older adults: a randomised controlled trial.
Aislinn F. McCourt, Steven L. Mulrooney, Graham J. O’Neill, E. Dolores O’Riordan, Aifric M. O’Sullivan

d. Associations between maternal and infant selenium status and child growth in a birth cohort from Dhaka, Bangladesh
Rukshan Mehta, Christine Krupa, Tahmeed Ahmed, Davidson H. Hamer, Abdullah Al Mahmud

>> Dietary Surveys and Nutritional Epidemiology
a. The Global Diet Quality Score predicts diet quality of women of reproductive age in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Kaleab Baye, Zemenu Yaregal

b. Select Systematic review and meta-analysis of iodine nutrition in modern vegan and vegetarian diets
Systematic review and meta-analysis of iodine nutrition in modern vegan and vegetarian diets
Elizabeth Rose Eveleigh, Lisa Coneyworth, Simon J. M. Welham

>> Research Article
a. The nutritional profile of commercial complementary foods in Japan: comparison between low- and high-price products
Minami Sugimoto, Xiaoyi Yuan, Ken Uechi, Satoshi Sasaki

b. Ultra-processed foods in a rural Ecuadorian community: associations with child anthropometry and bone maturation
Emmanuel A. Gyimah, Jennifer L. Nicholas, William F. Waters, Carlos Andres Gallegos-Riofrío, Melissa Chapnick, Ivy Blackmore, Katherine E. Douglas, Lora L. Iannotti

c. An online exploratory survey of Australian athletes’ and exercisers’ use of and attitudes towards ultra-processed sports foods
Adrienne Forsyth, Evangeline Mantzioris

>> Behaviour, Appetite and Obesity
a. All-cause mortality risk with different metabolic abdominal obesity phenotypes: the Rural Chinese Cohort Study
Xiaoyan Wu, Yang Zhao, Qionggui Zhou, Minghui Han, Ranran Qie, Pei Qin, Yanyan Zhang, Zelin Huang, Jiong Liu, Fulan Hu, Xinping Luo, Ming Zhang, Yu Liu, Xizhuo Sun, Dongsheng Hu

b. The effects of capsaicin intake on weight loss among overweight and obese subjects: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
Wensen Zhang, Qiang Zhang, Lianke Wang, Qianyu Zhou, Panpan Wang, Ying Qing, Changqing Sun