| NAFLD | Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease |
| NASH | Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis |
| Ldlr−/− | Low-density lipoprotein receptor knockout |
| ED | Energy-dense |
| BF | Butter fat fructose |
| LS | Lard fat sucrose |
| LS+FW | Lard fat sucrose and fructose water |
| HFD | High-fat diet |
| SCFA | Short-chain fatty acid |
| ALT | Alanine-aminotransferase |
| TG | Triglycerides |
| WAT | White adipose tissue |
| CLS | Crown-like structures |
| FD4 | Fluorescein isothiocyanate-labeled dextran 4 |
| LC-MS | Liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry |
| NMDS | Non-metric multidimensional scaling |
| CV-score | Cross-validation score |
| rCCA | Regularized canonical correlation analysis |
| IR | Insulin resistance |
| UPLC | Ultraperformance liquid chromatography |
| HR-MS | High-resolution mass spectrometry |