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. 2024 Sep 19;72(39):21301–21317. doi: 10.1021/acs.jafc.4c02920

Table 1. Amino Acid Composition of Fish Protein Hydrolysates (mg/g Protein/Powder) Generated from Different Fish Species Following Hydrolysis Using Alcalase (A) and Flavourzyme 500L (F)a.

    red salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) hydrolysates (mg/g protein)167
herring (Clupea harengus) byproduct hydrolysates (mg/g protein)24
  yellow stripe trevally (Selaroides leptolepis) protein hydrolysates (mg/g powder)168
brown stripe red snapper (Lutjanus vitta) muscle protein hydrolysates (mg/g powder)20
amino acid blue whiting protein hydrolysates (mg/g powder)163 A F HBH HHH blue whiting protein hydrolysates (mg amino acid/g powder)86 A F A F
aspartic acid 85.6 88.3 87.7 93.8 89.2 64.2 95.5 94.0 106.5 107.3
threonine 37 41.9 42.1 39.3 40.4 25.9     51.0 49.1
serine 41.0 46.1 46.2 41.1 45.3 25.5 53.5 54.0 51.5 50.2
glutamic acid 125.0 135.1 134.9 163.4 145.1 94.1 137.7 138.9 162.3 169.2
proline 34.1 65.0 66.8 41.0 58.9 20.2 38.1 38.4 36.6 34.6
glycine 55.2 97.6 102.9 69.8 95.0 27.8 88.7 86.5 74.8 72.1
alanine 54.1 68.4 68.8 70.1 69.4 38.4 94.9 94.6 93.8 95.6
valine 38.9 50.1 45.2 44.7 45.7 27.8 36.1 33.8 51.5 51.5
methionine 19.4 28.8 29.4 33.3 33.1 18.2 25.8 18.7 29.3 29.2
isoleucine 33.5 37.1 36.6 33.2 32.6 27.4 41.4 44.9 41.4 40.7
leucine 57.8 66.9 66.5 78.8 71.2 48.0 83.8 85.8 85.4 86.2
tyrosine 32.3 32.5 30.9 26.3 27.4 18.7 57.0 61.1 23.3 21.4
phenylalanine 28.7 40.7 39.7 34.9 37.2 23.1 26.1 26.6 26.5 24.5
histidine 15.3 23.8 23.0 26.0 18.9 8.6 36.2 29.8 17.1 16.0
hydroxyproline   23.5 25.6     0.0        
lysine 74.4 73.9 72.5 106.6 80.4 53.9 83.5 87.2 95.1 97.6
arginine 59.4 67.7 69.2 70.5 73.0 40.7 35.0 38.8 50.0 50.6
tryptophan 6.5         0.0     2.8 2.9
cysteine 6.1     11.2 11.1 6.5 14.7 15.3 1.2 1.4
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HBH = herring body (only head and gonads were removed) hydrolysates (generated with Alcalase); HHH = herring head hydrolysates (generated with Alcalase)