Table 2.

Composition of amino acid in the germinated soybean proteins (mg/g.pr)

Amino acids	Abbreviation	Germinating time (day)
		0	1	2	3
Aspartic acid	Asp	83.233	83.015	80.500	90.284
Threoninea	Thr	28.425	28.466	27.579	29.429
Serine	Ser	39.490	39.721	38.191	41.417
Glutamic acid	Glu	152.216	145.761	142.300	149.882
Glycine	Gly	29.273	28.458	26.955	30.401
Alanine	Ala	43.092	47.882	49.638	45.246
Valinea	Val	32.576	35.811	36.974	36.421
Methioninea	Met	9.318	11.186	12.980	16.618
Isoleucinea	Ile	25.590	25.107	24.021	33.716
Leucinea	Leu	52.927	52.838	50.414	62.288
Tyrosineb	Tyr	35.154	40.747	43.546	38.845
Phenylalaninea	Phe	38.638	43.143	45.193	37.202
Lysinea	Lys	45.037	45.266	45.452	46.216
Arginine	Arg	57.820	53.804	51.791	55.584
Histidinea	His	20.604	21.308	21.908	22.220
Proline	Pro	37.382	34.330	33.042	38.187
Cysteineb	Cys	–	–	–	–
Tryptophana	TRP	–	–	–	–
Free Ammonia	NH3	7.625	7.656	7.958	8.326
Lys/Arg		0.779	0.841	0.878	0.831
TAA		730.775	736.843	730.484	773.956
EAA		288.269	303.872	308.067	322.955
EAA/TAA		0.394	0.412	0.421	0.417
EAA/NEAA		0.651	0.702	0.729	0.716

Values shown are mean ± SD, n = 9.

EAA: total essential amino acid; NEAA: no essential amino acid; TAA: total amino acid; –: not detected.

^aEssential amino acid. ^bConditionally essential amino acid.