Benedikt Merz

Max Rubner Institut — Germany

Medicine · Health Sciences

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Research Topics

Nutritional Studies and Diet(21), Diet and metabolism studies(12), Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies(7), Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease(7), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet(5)

Publications40 total

Higher adherence to core food-based vegetarian and prudent dietary patterns is associated with lower adiposity and metabolic disease risk in Pacific and New Zealand European women
Nutrition and Health·2026
Validating a multi-biomarker panel for the assessment of quantity and quality of plant foods in the diet (PLAENTI): Study protocol of a parallel group designed randomized controlled trial in healthy volunteers following a two-week dietary intervention (Preprint)
2025
Urinary excretion of low- and no-calorie sweeteners (LNCS) and associated food sources, as observed in the German cross-sectional KarMeN-study
European Journal of Nutrition·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Using the Nutri-Score to visualise food reformulation in Germany: the case of breakfast cereals
BMC Public Health·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Microbiome profiling in the COPLANT study
OpenAgrar·2025
The COPLANT study - future research on plant-based nutrition
OpenAgrar·2025
Dietary Fibre Intake, Adiposity, and Metabolic Disease Risk in Pacific and New Zealand European Women
Nutrients·2024· 7 citedOpen Access
Dietary fibre intake, adiposity, and metabolic disease risk in Pacific and New Zealand European women
Proceedings of The Nutrition Society·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Nutri-Score 2023 update
Nature Food·2024· 59 citedOpen Access
Dietary Assessment of Plant Food Intake Using Multi-Biomarker Panels
2024Open Access
Assessment of Energy and Nutrient Intake and the Intestinal Microbiome (ErNst Study): Protocol and Methods of a Cross-sectional Human Observational Study
JMIR Research Protocols·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
The fecal microbiotas of women of Pacific and New Zealand European ethnicities are characterized by distinctive enterotypes that reflect dietary intakes and fecal water content
Gut Microbes·2023· 16 citedOpen Access
Assessment of Energy and Nutrient Intake and the Intestinal Microbiome (ErNst Study): Protocol and Methods of a Cross-sectional Human Observational Study (Preprint)
2022Open Access
First review on the selenium status in Germany covering the last 50 years and on the selenium content of selected food items
European Journal of Nutrition·2022· 12 citedOpen Access
Sex-Specific Relationship between the Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Plasma Metabolite Patterns in Healthy Humans—Results of the KarMeN Study
Metabolites·2021· 9 citedOpen Access
Der Nutri-Score: Wie er funktioniert und warum kein Konflikt mit den Ernährungsempfehlungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Ernährung besteht
Rundschau für Fleischhygiene und Lebensmittelüberwachung : RFL·2021
Glyphosate and AMPA levels in human urine samples and their correlation with food consumption: results of the cross-sectional KarMeN study in Germany
Archives of Toxicology·2020· 87 citedOpen Access
Bericht zur wissenschaftlichen Bewertung von Forderungen zur Modifikation des Nutri-Score
2020
Body composition of New Zealand European and Pacific women is associated with lower dietary fibre intake and gut microbiota diversity
Proceedings of The Nutrition Society·2020Open Access
Associations of Diet and Plasma BCAA Concentrations in Healthy Men and Women – Results from the KarMeN Study
Proceedings of The Nutrition Society·2020Open Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Achim Bub(17), Bernhard Watzl(16), Manuela J. Rist(11), Sabine E. Kulling(9), Ralf Krüger(8), Ute Nöthlings(6), Barbara Thorand(6), Lara Frommherz(5), Marjolein Haftenberger(5), Annette Peters(5), Ursula Bachlechner(5), Anja Schienkiewitz(5), Nikki Renall(5), Marine Corbin(5), Christoph H. Weinert(4), Karin Halina Greiser(4), Susanne Vogt(4), Till Ittermann(4), Sabine Schipf(4), Jeroen Douwes(4)