Table 11.
Amino acid content (g/kg, dry matter basis) of field peas.
| Amino Acid | References | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [22] | [24] 1 | [25] | [49] | [50] | [58] | [90] 2 | [96] 3 | [99] | |
| Essential | |||||||||
| Arginine | 22.0 | 10.9 | 24.3 | 25.2 | 22.0 | 16.1 | 21.1 | 12.4 | 21.1 |
| Histidine | 6.2 | 2.8 | 5.8 | 6.6 | 6.5 | 4.3 | 6.3 | 5.1 | 6.3 |
| Isoleucine | 10.2 | 5.1 | 9.4 | 10.2 | 9.7 | 9.9 | 9.4 | 7.3 | 10.9 |
| Leucine | 16.8 | 8.2 | 16.6 | 17.5 | 17.5 | 16.0 | 16.7 | 12.7 | 18.3 |
| Lysine | 17.0 | 8.3 | 14.2 | 17.1 | 17.3 | 14.8 | 17.3 | 14.0 | 18.8 |
| Methionine | 2.3 | 1.0 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 2.6 | 2.0 | 2.5 | 2.2 | 2.7 |
| Phenylalanine | 11.0 | 5.2 | 11.1 | 11.5 | 10.9 | 10.8 | 11.1 | 8.9 | 11.9 |
| Threonine | 9.0 | 4.1 | 8.5 | 9.6 | 9.0 | 9.2 | 8.6 | 7.5 | 10.2 |
| Tryptophan | na | 0.9 | na | na | na | 2.0 | na | 1.4 | 2.3 |
| Valine | 12.3 | 5.5 | 10.8 | 12.0 | 10.5 | 10.3 | 10.3 | 8.3 | 13.0 |
| Non-essential | |||||||||
| Alanine | 10.4 | 5.0 | 10.1 | 11.3 | 10.0 | 10.1 | 9.8 | 8.1 | 11.4 |
| Aspartic acid | 26.7 | 12.5 | 25.4 | 28.6 | 28.6 | 30.1 | 26.6 | 20.9 | 28.9 |
| Cysteine | 1.8 | 1.4 | 3.2 | 3.5 | 3.1 | 3.4 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 3.5 |
| Glycine | 10.3 | 4.7 | 10.1 | 10.9 | 10.4 | 9.7 | 9.9 | 7.7 | 11.1 |
| Glutamic acid | 39.7 | 22.3 | 38.4 | 41.3 | 39.6 | 39.3 | 37.3 | 29.3 | 45.1 |
| Proline | 8.4 | 4.6 | 9.7 | na | 9.6 | 9.7 | 9.3 | 7.8 | 10.4 |
| Serine | 11.8 | 5.2 | 11.1 | 12.9 | 10.3 | 12.8 | 10.0 | 8.2 | 12.1 |
| Tyrosine | 7.3 | 3.0 | 6.7 | 7.6 | 8.3 | 7.0 | 7.8 | 5.7 | 7.1 |
1 Average of 4 cultivars (Amino, Australian, Finale and Frilène); 2 Average of 4 cultivars (Santana, Miami, Courier and Rex); 3 cv. Alvesta.