TABLE 5.

Calculation of DIAAS for a mixture of foods consumed by a child¹

		Composition2					True ileal digestibility IAA content in mixture, mg
Food	Weight,g	Protein, g	Thr, mg /g protein	SAAs, mg /g protein	AAAs, mg /g protein	Lys, mg /g protein	Thr	SAAs	AAAs	Lys	DIAAS, %
Cereals	166	13	31	44	99	36	315	467	1073	379	—
Millets	0	0	38	42	91	28	0	0	0	0	—
Legumes	48	11	32	20	90	66	213	113	747	460	—
Fish, other flesh foods, and egg	0	0	64	168	103	82	0	0	0	0	—
Milk and milk products	287	9	48	37	106	86	404	300	891	757	—
Amino acid score (total for each amino acid/total protein content in the mixture), mg/g protein	—	—	—	—	—	—	27	27	82	47	—
Digestible IAA reference ratio for mixture	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.02	1.06	1.77	0.93	93

¹AAA, aromatic amino acid (phenylalanine + tyrosine); DIAAS, Digestible Indispensable Amino Acid Score; IAA, indispensable amino acid; SAA, sulfur amino acid (methionine + cysteine).

²The amino acid profile for each foods was taken from the Indian Food Composition Tables, 2017.