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Six mouthpieces incorporated filter membranes; one unfiltered mouthpiece served as reference. Breath was analysed in real time using SESI-HRMS. Data were pre-processed, assessed for mouthpiece effects using guided principal component analysis, corrected using ComBat, and mouthpiece-specific features were putatively annotated against the Human Metabolome Database. Pre-processing yielded 3, 718 reproducible breath features. Mouthpiece type produced a strong batch effect (\n                    <jats:italic>D<\/jats:italic>\n                    = 0.9969,\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    &lt; 0.001), with three clusters: A\/B, C\/D\/E\/F, and the unfiltered reference. Mouthpiece type accounted for 42.7% of total feature variance. The unfiltered reference detected 397 features not reproducibly detected with filtered mouthpieces, enriched in low-molecular-weight features putatively assigned to amino-acid-related compounds, short-chain aldehydes, and amines. Filtered mouthpieces contributed mouthpiece-specific features consistent with potential material-related background signals. ComBat reduced mouthpiece-type clustering (\n                    <jats:italic>D<\/jats:italic>\n                    = 0.1407,\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    = 0.998) while preserving most inter-subject variance. Mouthpiece type is a major determinant of detected SESI-HRMS breath profiles. Filtered mouthpieces may attenuate selected low-molecular-weight polar features and introduce mouthpiece-specific background signals. Batch correction reduces systematic mouthpiece-related variance but cannot recover features not transmitted by the sampling interface. 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