Table 1.

Sampling scheme for M. oleifera leaves extracts used for NMR metabolomics analysis.

Harvest Date	Harvest Frequency	Sample Labels
January 2018	High	H-Jan1a H-Jan2a H-Jan3a
	Intermediate	I-Jan1a * I-Jan2a *
	Low	L-Jan1a * L-Jan2a *
February 2018	High	H-Feb1 ** H-Feb2 **
March 2018	High	H-Mar1 H-Mar2 **
	Intermediate	I-Mar1 I-Mar2
April 2018	High	H-April1 H-April2
	Low	L-April1 L-Apri2
May 2018	High	H-May1 H-May2
	Intermediate	I-May1 I-May2 **
June 2018	Excluded from metabolomics analysis as the leaf quality was affected by the winter season
July 2018
August 2018
September 2018
October 2018	High	H-Oct1 H-Oct2
	Intermediate	I-Oct1 ** I-Oct2 **
	Low	L-Oct1 ** L-Oct2
November 2018	High	H-Nov1 H-Nov2
December 2018	High	H-Dec1 H-Dec2 **
	Intermediate	I-Dec1 I-Dec2
January 2019	High	H-Jan1b H-Jan2b
	Low	L-Jan1b L-Jan2b

* Excluded from analysis as day zero. ** Removed from the analysis as the outliers.