Prodhan, Utpal Kumar http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5208-1864
Milan, Amber Marie
Shrestha, Aahana http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2162-6494
Vickers, Mark Hedley
Cameron-Smith, David
Barnett, Matthew Philip Greig http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5186-5579
Article History
Received: 27 July 2021
Revised: 27 February 2022
Accepted: 10 March 2022
First Online: 22 April 2022
Competing interests
: Amber Marie Milan and Matthew Philip Greig Barnett are employees of AgResearch Limited. David Cameron-Smith was employed by the a2 Milk Company Ltd from 12 October 2018 to 31 January 2019. The funding sponsors had no role in the design of the study, in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data, or in the writing of the manuscript. The other authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
: The study was conducted according to the guidelines laid out by the Declaration of Helsinki. All procedures involving human subjects were approved by the Southern Health and Disability Ethics Committee (New Zealand, 16/STH/175), and all participants provided written informed consent. This study was registered with the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry at ExternalRef removed (ACTRN12616001694404).