| ADI | Acceptable daily intake |
| A. muciniphila | Akkermansia muciniphila |
| B. bifidum | Bifidobacterium bifidum |
| B. thetaiotaomicron | Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron |
| CG | Control group |
| Chao | Chao1 richness |
| C. leptum | Clostridium leptum |
| E. coli | Escherichia coli |
| E. faecalis | Enterococcus faecalis |
| EFSA | European Food Safety Authority |
| Fa | Faith’s Phylogenetic Diversity Index |
| FDA | Food and Drug Administration |
| H’A | Shannon index OR Shannon’s diversity index OR Shannon–Wiener index (same) |
| HFD | High fat diet |
| HFS | High fat/high sucrose diet |
| J’ | Pielou’s evenness |
| LB | Lysogeny broth |
| L. rhamnosus | Lactobacillus rhamnosus |
| MAPK | Mitogen-activated protein kinase |
| MRS broth | de Man, Rogosa and Sharpe broth |
| NF-κB | Nuclear factor-kappa B |
| NMDS | Nonmetric multidimensional scaling on a Bray–Curtis dissimilarity matrix |
| NS | No significant difference |
| OTUs | Operational taxonomic units |
| P. aeruginosa | Pseudomonas aeruginosa |
| REB-A | Rebaudioside A |
| S. aureus | Staphylococcus aureus |
| SE | Shannon evenness index |
| SG | Stevia group |
| S. typhimurium | Salmonella typhimurium. |
| VLPs | Virus-like particles |