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. 2020 Mar 21;12(3):845. doi: 10.3390/nu12030845

Table A3.

Supplement Amino Acid Composition.

WHEY CON
mg·kg−1 % Dose (g) mg·kg−1 % Dose (g)
Alanine 17 5 1.4 (0.2) 33 10 2.6 (0.6)
Arginine 8 2 0.7 (0.1) 0 0 0
Aspartic acid 35 11 3.1 (0.4) 41 12 3.2 (0.7)
Cysteine 8 2 0.6 (0.1) 0 0 0
Glutamic acid 56 17 4.9 (0.6) 120 36 9.3 (2.0)
Glycine 6 2 0.5 (0.1) 13 4 1.0 (0.2)
Histidine 6 2 0.5 (0.1) 0 0 0
Isoleucine 20 6 1.8 (0.2) 0 0 0
Leucine 34 10 3.0 (1.4) 0 0 0
Lysine 30 9 2.7 (0.3) 0 0 0
Methionine 7 2 0.6 (0.1) 0 0 0
Phenylalanine 10 3 0.9 (0.1) 0 0 0
Proline 19 6 1.7 (0.2) 53 16 4.2 (0.9)
Serine 17 5 1.4 (0.2) 45 14 3.5 (0.8)
Threonine 23 7 2.1 (0.3) 0 0 0
Tryptophan 7 2 0.6 (0.1) 0 0 0
Tyrosine 9 3 0.8 (0.1) 25 8 2.0 (0.4)
Valine 19 6 1.7 (0.2) 0 0 0
EAA 160 48 13.7 (1.7) 0 0 0
NEAA 170 52 15.2 (1.9) 330 100 25.8 (5.6)
TAA 330 100 28.9 (3.6) 330 100 25.8 (5.6)

Amino acid composition of the whey protein concentrate (WHEY) and nonessential amino acid control (CON). Data are mg∙kg−1 body mass, % total mass and absolute gram dose (mean (SD)). Supplement dose was isonitrogenous and scaled to body mass (0.33 g·kg−1). EAA, essential amino acids; NEAA, nonessential amino acids; TAA, total amino acid content.