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Objectives: This phenotyping trial aims to test the hypothesis that women\u2019s urine differs in its anti-adhesion capabilities against P-type Escherichia coli (UPEC), potentially influenced by variations in their urine metabolome, and that women\u2019s urinary anti-adhesion activity responds differently to cranberry juice intake. Methods: A total of 152 healthy women (aged 21\u201365) avoided any cranberry products for 10 days and consumed 10 oz of pure cranberry juice daily for 4 days. Two baseline and one post-consumption morning urine samples were collected on days 9, 10, and 15, respectively, to assess urinary anti-adhesion capacity using an optimized fluorometric method, and the results were expressed as anti-adhesion indices (AAI). Metabolites in 18 baseline urine samples with high AAI (133\u2013164) and 18 baseline urine samples with low AAI (80\u2013128) were explored using untargeted metabolomics on UHPLC-Orbitrap-MS\/MS. Results: The baseline urinary AAI against P-type UPEC ranged from 84 to 170 in the women. Seventy-seven women (51%) were assigned to the \u201cUTI-susceptible\u201d phenotype due to a baseline AAI below the 50th percentile (AAI = 131). The rest (n = 75) were \u201cUTI-nonsusceptible.\u201d The metabolome differed in urine with high or low AAI, and 165 urinary metabolites were found to differentiate between UTI-susceptible and nonsusceptible phenotypes. After four days of cranberry juice consumption, 34.2% of susceptible women and 18.9% of nonsusceptible women were assigned to the \u201cpositive responders\u201d phenotype due to positive AAI changes above 10. The rest were \u201cnon-positive responders.\u201d Conclusions: Healthy women differed in their urinary anti-adhesion capacities against UTIs and responded differently to cranberry juice consumption. 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