| MOE | Melissa officinalis extract |
| SD | Standard diet |
| HFHSD | High-fat high-sucrose diet |
| HFHSD MOE | HFHSD supplemented with MOE |
| EPM | Elevated plus maze |
| OGTT | Oral glucose tolerance test |
| AUC | Area under the curve |
| GABA | γ-aminobutyric acid |
| GABA-T | γ-aminobutyric acid transaminase |
| ONIRIS | Nantes-Atlantic National College of Veterinary Medicine, Food Science and Engineering |
| BW | Body weight |
| BMI | Body mass index |
| AI | Adiposity index |
| VAT | Visceral adipose tissue |
| AC | Abdominal circumference |
| SEM | Standard error of the mean |
| HPO | Hydrophobic extract |
| HPI | Hydrophilic extract |
| ESI | Electrospray ionization |
| OPLS-DA | Orthogonal partial least squares–discriminant analysis |
| VIP | Variable importance in projection |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| SMPDB | Small Molecule Pathway Database |
| UHPLC | Ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography |
| QTOF-HRMS | Quadrupole time-of-flight-high resolution mass spectrometry |
| HMDB | Human Metabolome Database |
| MoNA | MassBank of North America |
| OLETF | Otsuka Long-Evans Tokushima fatty |
| PPP | Pentose phosphate pathway |
| BA | Bile acids |
| FXR | Faresoid X receptor |
| TGR5 | Takeda G protein-coupled receptor 5 |