| ARs | alkylresorcinols |
| QTOF | quadrupole time of flight |
| HRMS | high resolution mass spectrometer |
| QC | quality control |
| PCA | principal component analysis |
| PLS-DA | projection on latent structure-discriminant analysis |
| OPLS-DA | orthogonal projection on latent structure-discriminant analysis |
| DG | diacylglycerol |
| TG | triacylglycerol |
| PC | phosphatidylcholine |
| Lyso PC | lysophosphatidylcholine |