1,3-Dihydroxyacetone is the main active ingredient in sunscreen tanning skin care preparations, an important precursor for the synthesis of a variety of fine chemicals, and a food additive that can be produced on an industrial scale by microbial fermentation on Gluconobacter oxydans.

2'-Deoxycytidine-5'-monophosphoric acid disodium (dCMP disodium) functions as an endogenous metabolite.

D-Threonine is one of the metabolites of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.