Acknowledgements We wish to thank all the respondents of the PFS Consumer Survey. We are grateful to all the partners of the PlantLIBRA Project, who made this study possible. Special thanks to colleagues who have contributed to the PlantLIBRA PFS Consumer Survey and the ePlantLIBRA Database (see front page for members of the Working Groups); thanks to the PlantLIBRA partners who added the fennel composition data to the database: Qi Chang and Rui-Le Pan (Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, China), Lucia Steenkamp (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa) and Jackie Hughes (Institute of Food Research, UK); thanks also to Viktoria Knaze, Raimon Milà-Villarroel and Liliana Vargas-Murga (Fundación para la Investigación Nutricional, Barcelona Science Park, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain); The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) under Grant agreement n 245199. It was carried out within the PlantLIBRA project (website: www. plantlibra.eu). This article does not necessarily reflect the Commission views or its future policy on this area.

Acknowledgements The authors thank Rob Atwill, Xunde Li, and Marguerite Pappaioanou for review and commentary on this curricular framework. Funding support for this project was provided through funding from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Cooperative Agreement 1U54FD004327 and Nanjing Agricultural University. The funding entities were not involved in the writing of this report or the decision to submit this work for publication.