www.mnf-journal.com Page 1 Molecular Nutrition & Food Research Received: 06.08,2018; Revised: 12.07,2018; Accepted: 01.04,2019 This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1002/mnfr.201800568. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. Vegan and animal meal composition and timing influence glucose and lipid related postprandial metabolic profiles Colleen Fogarty Draper 1,2* , Giulia Tini 3,4 , Irene Vassallo 5 , Jean Philippe Godin 6 , MingMing Su 7 , Wei Jia 7 , Maurice Beaumont 8 , Sofia Moco 1, Francois-Pierre Martin 1 1 Nestle Institute of Health Sciences (NIHS), Lausanne, Switzerland 2 Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands 3 The Microsoft Research – University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology, 38068 Rovereto, Italy. 4 Department of Mathematics, University of Trento, 38050 Povo, Italy. 5 Precision for Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland 6 Nestlé Research Center (NRC), Lausanne, Switzerland 7 University of Hawaii Cancer Center (UHCC), Hawaii, USA 8 Clinical Development Unit, NRC, Lausanne, Switzerland *Correspondence to: Colleen.Draper@rd.nestle.com Tel.: +41 21 632-6154 Short running title: Postprandial response to vegan and animal meals Clinical Trial Registry number: ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02223585 Abbreviations: AUC area under the curve ALA alanine ARG arginine BCAAs branched chain amino acids EAAs essential amino acids CYS cysteine