Correction to: European Journal of Clinical Nutrition advance online publication 25 January 2017; doi:10.1038/ejcn.2016.271

Since the publication of this article, the authors have noticed an error in author affiliation 1. The correct affiliation is:

Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam, Germany.

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