BACKGROUND: Evidence on the relationship between food processing and health outcomes has been increasing steadily. Under this context, ultra-processing food, such as sugar-sweetened fruity beverages (SS-FB), is associated with a higher risk of metabolic syndrome. However, whether...

Plants produce thousands of compounds, collectively called the metabolome, which mediate interactions with other organisms. The metabolome of an individual plant may change according to the number and nature of these interactions. We tested the hypothesis that tree diversity level affects the met...