Table 3. The average pathway abundance analysed by PICRUSt.

Category*	Pathway ID*	Average relative abundance (%)
		I	P	S
Glycolysis	ANAGLYCOLYSIS-PWY	0.62	0.69	0.77
	GLYCOLYSIS	0.47	0.64	0.70
	PWY-5484	0.47	0.64	0.68
TCA cycle	P105-PWY	0.67a	0.57b	0.40
	PWY-5913	0.50	0.46	0.37
	PWY-6969	0.69a	0.58b	0.41
	PWY-7254	0.36	0.38	0.22
	TCA	0.74a	0.62b	0.42b
Fermentation of pyruvate	CENTFERM-PWY	0.02	0.02	0.04
	FERMENTATION-PWY	0.20a	0.46b	0.30
	P108-PWY	0.55a	0.30b	0.32
	P161-PWY	0.08a	0.24	0.56b
	PWY-6588	0.04	0.05	0.11
Fermentation to Lactate	P122-PWY	0.12	0.15	0.31
	P124-PWY	0.21	0.19	0.42
	P461-PWY	0.06a	0.13b	0.26b
	PWY-5100	0.18	0.21	0.64
Ala biosynthesis	PWY0-1061	0.31	0.52	0.43
BCAA biosynthesis	BRANCHED-CHAIN-AA-SYN-PWY	0.80a	0.64b	0.71
Ile biosynthesis	ILEUSYN-PWY	0.91a	0.72b	0.88
	PWY-3001	0.67a	0.57b	0.64
	PWY-5101	0.95a	0.75b	0.88
	PWY-5103	0.75a	0.61b	0.64
	PWY-5104	0.40	0.43	0.49
Val biosynthesis	VALSYN-PWY	0.91a	0.72b	0.88

Notes.

^*Category and Pathway ID were from the MetaCyc database (https:/metacyc.org/).

I

initial raw vegetable group

P

pretreatment group

S

salt stock preparation group

Ala

alanine

BCAA

branched-chain amino acid

Ile

isoleucine

Val

valine

Different superscript letters in a row indicate a significant difference between the mean values (P < 0.05).