Table 5.

Amino acid content of different varieties of almonds (Prunus dulcis Mill. D. A. Webb).

	Varieties	Almond	Carmel	Mission	Nonpareil
Amino Acids		(g/100 g protein)
Histidine		0.539	1.93	1.93	2.14
Isoleucine		0.751	2.88	2.83	2.71
Leucine		1.473	6.19	5.77	5.81
Lysine		0.568	2.14	1.99	2.36
Methionine		0.157	0.4	0.37	0.42
Cystine		0.215	0.26	0.28	0.24
Threonine		0.601	1.95	1.91	1.93
Tryptophan		0.211	1.08	0.89	0.89
Valine		0.855	3.39	3.3	3.17
Phenylalanine		1.132	4.38	4.1	4.25
Tyrosine		0.45	1.51	1.39	1.19
Arginine		2.465	9.4	9.68	9.33
Alanine		0.999	4.25	4.12	4.11
Reference		[19]	[25]	[25]	[25]