“…The EMS-IDA-EPI scan is commonly used to identify metabolites in non-target screening. 43 In this study, eight metabolites derived from caffeine were tentatively identified, which were xanthine, methylxanthine, theobromine, paraxanthine, theophylline, 1,3-dimethyluric acid, 1,3,7-trimethyluric acid (M210), and 8-hydroxy-1,3,7-trimethyl-3,7,8,9-tetrahydro-1H-purine-2,6-dione (M212) (Table S3). Among these eight metabolites, the commercially available authentic standards xanthine, 3-methylxanthine, 7-methylxanthine, theobromine, paraxanthine, theophylline, and 1,3-dimethyluric acid were used to confirm the metabolites in lettuce shoots based on the European Union Guideline 2002/657/EC.…”