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. 2019 Jul 19;11(7):1657. doi: 10.3390/nu11071657

Table 1.

Amino acid composition of the whey protein and nonessential amino acid blend.

WHEY NEAA
mg·kg−1 % mg·kg1 %
Alanine 17 5 33 10
Arginine 8 2 0 0
Aspartic acid 35 11 41 12
Cysteine 8 2 0 0
Glutamic acid 56 17 120 36
Glycine 6 2 13 4
Histidine 6 2 0 0
Isoleucine 20 6 0 0
Leucine 34 10 0 0
Lysine 30 9 0 0
Methionine 7 2 0 0
Phenylalanine 10 3 0 0
Proline 19 6 53 16
Serine 17 5 45 14
Threonine 23 7 0 0
Tryptophan 7 2 0 0
Tyrosine 9 3 25 8
Valine 19 6 0 0
EAA 0.16 48 0 0
NEAA 0.17 52 0.33 100
Total 0.33 0.33

Isonitrogenous whey protein (WHEY) and nonessential amino acid (NEAA) blend dose was scaled to a body mass (kg) concentrate and hydrolysate amino acid composition was equivalent. Data are mg·kg−1 body mass and % total mass.