Article title: Effects of a plant-based fatty acid supplement and a powdered fruit, vegetable and berry juice concentrate on omega-3-indices and serum micronutrient concentrations in healthy subjects
Authors: Sebastian Dams, Sandra Holasek, Melina Tsiountsioura, Martin Edelsbrunner, Pavel Dietz, Harald Koefeler, Daniela-Eugenia Malliga, Ayse Gürbüz, Nathalie Meier-Allard, Brigitte Poncza, Sonja Lackner, Elke Schwarzenberger, Yvonne Jansenberger and Manfred Lamprecht
Journal: International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09637486.2020.1725960
In the article, author spotted corrections that need to be made within the paper on page 2.
The ingredients of the fatty acid blend listed in the section “Materials and methods – Study design and description of interventions” on page 2 in the paper (right column), are not entirely correct. The tested fatty acid blend did not contain fatty acids or oils from blackberry or cranberry seeds. However, this had no effect on any of the reported outcome measures omega-3-Index, DHA, EPA, vitamin C, alpha-tocopherol, gamma-tocopherol, beta-carotene, lutein/zeaxanthin and lycopene. The source for DHA and EPA, and the resulting omega-3-index, was the algae Schizochytrium sp. The new and corrected sentence should read:
The fatty acid blend contained plant-derived FAs from algae (Schizochytrium sp.) and from many different plant seeds including raspberries, pomegranate, tomatoes and sea buckthorn.
These have now been corrected in both online and print version.