GRAS	Generally regarded as safe
IL	Interleukin
TNFα	Tumour Necrosis Factor alpha
GM-CSF	Granulocyte-macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor
IFNɣ	Interferon gamma
BMI	Body Mass Index
OTU	Operational Taxonomic Unit
NAFLD	Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
HALE	Healthy Life Expectancy
CFU	Colony Forming Unit
API	Analytical Profile Index
FFQ	Food Frequency Questionnaire
PBS	Phosphate-Buffered Saline
TE	Tris Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid
HT1	Hybridisation Buffer
NaOH	Sodium hydroxide
PCR	Polymerase Chain Reaction
QIIME	Quantitative Insights Into Microbial Ecology
JSD	Jensen-Shannon distance
PAM	Partitioning Around medoids
CH	Calinski-Harabasz
Si	Silhouette coefficient
db-RDA	distance based Redundancy Analysis
PCoA	principal coordinate analysis
PMSF	Phenyl-methyl-sulfonyl fluoride
BSA	Bovine Serum Albumin
LLOQ	lower limit of quantification
PERMANOVA	Permutational Multivariate Analysis of Variance
ANOVA	Analysis of Variance