Table 3.

Relative contribution (%) of inorganic ions, amino acids, glycine betaine, sucrose, fructans, and other metabolites toward the total osmolality.

	cLNR	sLNR	cHNR	sHNR	cHNRS	sHNSR
Chloride	8.84	19.43	8.33	11.5	7.24	12.7
Nitrate	0.01	0.02	12.2	4.32	12.2	4.12
Potassium	34.7	15.2	27.9	20.8	29.8	20.9
Sodium	5.59	17.6	3.71	15.6	4.88	16.6
Ions contribution	49.2	52.3	52.0	52.3	54.1	54.2
Total amino acids	0.75	0.67	2.87	2.08	3.49	1.96
Asparagine	0.03	0.05	0.10	0.45	0.25	0.16
Glutamine	0.08	0.05	0.25	0.19	0.52	0.36
Minor AA	0.10	0.06	0.11	0.09	0.12	0.05
Proline	0.12	0.09	0.19	0.28	0.29	0.23
Glycine betaine	0.25	0.45	0.24	0.45	0.24	0.14
Hexoses	2.57	0.97	2.13	1.02	2.09	0.99
Sucrose	1.49	1.50	1.52	0.90	2.14	1.25
Kestose	1.66	0.84	0.13	0.16	0.16	0.15
Inulin	0.11	0.11	0.07	0.03	0.10	0.02
Nistose	0.35	1.05	0.19	0.25	0.23	0.23
Fructofuranosyl nystose	0.85	0.86	0.58	0.37	0.71	0.32
Organic osmolytes	8.04	6.45	7.73	5.26	9.15	5.07
Other metabolites	42.8	41.3	40.2	42.5	36.7	40.7

Values are mean ± SD (n = 4). The SD was lower than 13% of the average value.