Research on Plant-Based Nutrition - Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About the COPLANT Study
BfR FAQ, 11 March 2022
COPLANT means COhort on PLANT-based diet and is up to this date the largest planned cohort study on plant-based nutrition in all German-speaking countries. From the beginning of 2023, the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), together with the Max Rubner Institute (MRI), the Research Institute for Plant-Based Nutrition (IFPE), and five university partners - Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms University Bonn, Ruprecht Karl University Heidelberg, University of Regensburg, University of Vienna - will recruit around 6,000 women and men aged 18-69 for the study across Germany. The BfR has summarised the most important questions concerning the COPLANT Study.