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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 20.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Metabolomics. 2013;1(2):109–120. doi: 10.2174/2213235x11301020001

Table 2.

Dietary Modulation of the Blood Metabolome

Sample Metabolites Identified by Platform
GC-MS LC-MS NMR Other*

Blood Betaine Butyrylcarnitine B-hydroxybutyrate Caffeic Acid
N-dimethylglycine L-tryptophan Lactate Sulphonatemethylepicatechin
Dimethyl sulfone Choline Acetate
Stearic Acid Cysteine Betaine/trimethylamine-N-oxide
Oleic Acid Glycine Glycine betaine
LysoPC 14:0 Methionine β-glucose
LysoPC 18:0 Serine α-glucose
LysoPC 18:1 Urate inosine/adenosine and nucleotides
LysoPC 18:2 Phenylalanine Campesterol
LysoPC 20:2 Alanine DHA
L-Carnitine Histidine Cholestenol
L-Valine Branched-chain amino acids Sphingosine moiety
D-Pipecolic acid Isobutyrate Nervonic acid
L-Tyrosine Palmitic acid Erythrosphingosine
L-Leucine EPA Threosphingosine
Propionylcarnitine Cholic acid 3-O-methylsphingosine
SIRT1 Saccharic acid 5-O-methylsphingosine
11-dehydro thromboxane B (2) Sucrose N-methylalanine
3-hydroxybutanoic acid γ-linoleic acid palmitoleic acid
Sulfoglycolithocholic acid Phenylacetylglutamine 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaric acid
Threitol Tryptophan Idonic acid
Hydrocinnamic acid Taurine Lactobionic acid
α-ketoglutaric acid Citric Acid 3-phenyllactic acid
Docosapentaenoic acid L-proline Glycerol-3-galactoside
O-acetylcarnitine α-tocopherol Raffinose
Proline Betasitosterol Actetoacetate
Tyrosine Urolithin A glucuronide Glucose
Carnitine Niacine Creatinine
SIRT1 Biuret Triacylglycerol
Creatine Glycerol
Oleic Acid Ascorbic acid
Hippuric Acid urolithin C (trihydroxydibenzopyranone)
Adenine Acetone
LysoPC
Uric Acid
Creatinine
Leucine
Putrescine

References [2, 38, 59, 7072] [38, 40, 59, 61, 7376] [11, 20, 21] [1, 67, 71]
*

Other Platforms used in Identifying Metabolites: ICP-OES: Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectroscopy, DAD-MS/MS: Diode Array Detector Mass Spectrometry, FIEI-MS: Flow Injection Electrospray-ionisation.