About the Authors

Namalika D. Karunaratne

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

nkarunaratne@vet.pdn.ac.lk

Affiliation Department of Farm Animal Production and Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Sasmitha De Silva

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Farm Animal Production and Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Minoli Herath

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Farm Animal Production and Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Ruvini Liyanage

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Institute of Fundamental Studies, Kandy, Sri Lanka

Pabodha Weththasinghe

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Barana C. Jayawardana

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Eranga De Seram

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Farm Animal Production and Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Anil Pushpakumara

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Farm Animal Production and Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Mathew Flavel

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Bioactives Division, The Product Makers, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

Mathew Flavel, a co-author of this manuscript is attached to the company that supplies the polyphenol product. However, he did not involve with manuscript writing, data analysis and interpretation.