| Acar | acylcarnitine |
| ART-ANOVA | aligned rank transform for non-parametric factorial ANOVA |
| AUC | area under the curve |
| BMI | body mass index |
| BW | body weight |
| ChoE | cholesteryl ester |
| Cer | ceramide |
| DG | diacylglycerol |
| FA | fatty acid |
| FBG | fasting blood glucose |
| FC | fold change |
| FDR | false discovery rate |
| FI | fasting insulin |
| HFD | high-fat diet |
| HOMA-IR | homeostasis model assessment insulin resistance |
| LC-MS | liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry |
| LC | long-chain |
| LPC | lysophosphatidylcholine |
| LPE | lysophosphatidylethanolamine |
| MG | monoacylglycerol |
| OGTT | oral glucose tolerance test |
| PC | phosphatidylcholine |
| PC-O | ether-linked phosphatidylcholine |
| PCA | principal component analysis |
| PE | phosphatidylethanolamine |
| PE-O | ether-linked phosphatidylethanolamine |
| PERMANOVA | permutational multivariate analysis of variance |
| PS | phosphatidylserine |
| PUFA | polyunsaturated fatty acid |
| REF | reference diet |
| SEM | standard error of the mean |
| SM | sphingomyelin |
| TG | triacylglycerol |
| UHPLC-qTOF | ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography system coupled to quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry |
| WC | waist circumference |