Table 5.

Amino acid compositions of Caulerpa racemosa and Ulva fasciata expressed as a percentage (%) of the total amino acids detected by gas chromatography.

		C. racemosa (% of Total AAs)	U. fasciata (% of Total AAs)	Ovalbumin a (% of Total AAs)
Essential Amino Acids (EAAs)	Threonine	4.27 ± 0.10	3.12 ± 0.13	3.95
	Valine	8.63 ± 0.02	8.50 ± 0.07	7.10
	Lysine	5.96 ± 0.14	7.92 ± 0.44	10.14
	Isoleucine	6.14 ± 0.10	4.98 ± 0.17	6.32
	Leucine	9.64 ± 0.09	9.31 ± 0.28	8.16
	Phenylalanine	5.79 ± 0.07	6.07 ± 0.35	5.39
	Histidine	2.41 ± 0.00	1.41 ± 0.08	5.39
	Methionine	2.37 ± 0.07	0.86 ± 0.20	4.08
	Total EAAs	45.28 ± 0.12	42.17 ± 1.31	50.52
Non-Essential Amino Acids (NEAAs)	Aspartic acid	11.53 ± 0.11	10.95 ± 0.46	8.16
	Serine	3.54 ± 0.07	3.11 ± 0.46	8.95
	Glutamic acid	18.70 ± 0.17	15.49 ± 0.14	13.03
	Glycine	5.66 ± 0.04	6.87 ± 0.16	4.47
	Alanine	7.42 ± 0.12	10.85 ± 0.52	8.82
	Tyrosine	3.09 ± 0.14	4.04 ± 0.08	2.37
	Proline	4.39 ± 0.07	5.13 ± 0.07	3.69
	Hydroxyproline	0.39 ± 0.05	1.39 ± 0.00	ND
	Total NEAAs	54.72 ± 0.12	57.83 ± 1.31	49.48
	EAA/NEAA ratio	0.83 ± 0.00	0.73 ± 0.04	1.02

Values presented for C. racemosa and U fasciata are means of duplicates ± SD. ^a Values for the ovalbumin composition in amino acids were adapted from Kazir et al. [38].