| %E | Percentage of total energy |
| AhR | Aryl hydrocarbon receptor |
| ASF | Animal-sourced foods |
| ASVs | Amplicon sequence variants |
| BEDCA | Spanish Food Composition Database |
| BIoSSUM | Bloom or Selected in Societies of Urbanisation/Modernisation |
| BMI | Body mass index |
| CLR | Centred log-ratio |
| db-RDA | Distance-based redundancy analysis |
| FDR | False discovery rate |
| FFQ | Food frequency questionnaire |
| FINUT | Ibero-American Nutrition Foundation |
| IDT | Integrated DNA Technologies |
| PCoA | Principal coordinates analysis |
| PERMANOVA | Permutational multivariate analysis of variance |
| qPCR | Real-time polymerase chain reaction |
| RG | Refined grains |
| SD | Standard deviation |
| USDA | United States Department of Agriculture |
| VANISH | Volatile or Associated Negatively with Industrialised Societies of Humans |
| WG | Whole grains |