| DGE | German Nutrition Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ernährung) |
| DONALD | DOrtmund Nutritional and Anthropometric Longitudinally Designed |
| FCSD | Freshly cooked standard omnivore diet |
| HPSD | Highly processed standard omnivore diet |
| LFD | Low-fat normal-protein omnivore diet |
| MCD | High-fatmoderate-carb omnivore diet |
| MedD | Medium-fatnormal-protein Mediterranean omnivore diet |
| T2DM | type 2 diabetes mellitus |
| VeganD | Low-fatlow-protein vegan diet |
| VegetD | Low-fatnormal-protein vegetarian diet |