“…& Rudell, 2012; Lee, Rudell, Davies, & Watkins, 2012), liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC/MS) (Guo, Yue, Yuan, & Wang, 2013;Kristensen, Engelsen, & Dragsted, 2012;Lee, Mattheis, et al, 2012), and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy (Belton et al, 1998;del Campo, Santos, Berregi, & Munduate, 2005;del Campo, Santos, Iturriza, Berregi, & Munduate, 2006;Vandendriessche et al, 2013;Vermathen, Marzorati, Baumgartner, Good, & Vermathen, 2011) have been carried out. Despite its low sensitivity, NMR-based metabolomics has several advantages, including its rapidity, reproducibility, that it is nondestructive, and that it can be used for high-throughput characterisation (Spraul et al, 2009).…”