Outcomes for patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) remain poor due to the inability of current therapies to fully eradicate disease initiating leukemia stem cells (LSCs) (Shlush et al., 2017). Many studies have demonstrated that LSCs have unique metabolic properties compared to AML blasts and normal hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) (Jones et al., 2021). In this study we sought to quantify metabolite levels in LSCs compared to HSPCs using an unbiased metabolites screen. To examine metabolite levels in enriched LSCs and HSPCs we used mass spectrometry-based metabolomics analysis on enriched LSCs from 18 AML patients and HSPCs from 5 normal bone marrow (BM) specimens. Pathway analysis showed that arginine metabolism and biosynthesis were the most significantly enriched pathways in LSCs compared to HSPCs.