| ACE | Abundance-based coverage estimator |
| ANFs | Antinutritional factors |
| ASVs | Amplicon sequence variants |
| BMI | Body mass index |
| EAAs | Essential amino acids |
| FOM | Fermented food samples from omnivore group |
| FOM-1 | Fermented soybean curd |
| FOM-2 | Sour fermented spider flower (pak sian dong) |
| FOM-3 | Salty fermented fish |
| FOM-4 | Kefir |
| FVG | Fermented food samples from vegetarian group |
| FVG-1 | Sweetened fermented rice (Khao-Mak) |
| FVG-2 | Salty fermented soybean condiment (plara-jae) |
| FVG-3 | Sour fermented mushroom (nham) |
| FVG-6 | Salty fermented soybean paste (kapi-jea) |
| FVG-7 | Sour fermented spinach |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes pathways |
| LDA | Linear Discriminant Analysis |
| LEfSe | Linear Discriminant Analysis Effect Size |
| NMR | Nuclear magnetic resonance |
| OM | Omnivore |
| OTUs | Operational Taxonomic Units |
| PCoA | Principal Coordinate Analysis |
| LAB | Lactic acid bacteria |
| PERMANOVA | Permutational Multivariate Analysis of Variance |
| rRNA | Ribosomal RNA |
| SCFAs | Short-chain fatty acids |
| STAMP | Statistical Analysis of Metagenomic Profiles |
| VG | Vegetarian |