Table 2.
Amino acid concentrations in eggs.
| Amino acid, (g/kg) | Reference |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carvalho et al. (2018) (DM basis) | Ali et al. (2019) (DM basis) | Donadelli et al. (2019) (DM basis) | Li et al. (2019) (as-is) | Attia et al. (2020) (as-is) | |
| Arginine | 33.5 | 27.3 | 32.7 | 6.10 | 8.10 |
| Histidine | 13.1 | 12.9 | 12.9 | 2.50 | 3.10 |
| Isoleucine | 26.9 | 22.1 | 29.3 | 5.40 | 6.70 |
| Leucine | 45.1 | 34.2 | 46.7 | 8.50 | 10.9 |
| Lysine | 36.9 | 28.9 | 41.4 | 7.50 | 9.60 |
| Methionine | 16.5 | 16.2 | 17.4 | 3.90 | 3.50 |
| Phenylalanine | 30.8 | 21.2 | 30.1 | 6.40 | 6.50 |
| Phenylalanine | - | 37.8 | 52.8 | 11.6 | 11.7 |
| Threonine | 24.5 | 21.8 | 23.7 | 5.50 | 6.40 |
| Tryptophan | - | 6.00 | 8.70 | - | 1.40 |
| Valine | 33.4 | 27.8 | 36.5 | 6.40 | 7.40 |
| Alanine | 29.7 | 27.8 | - | 10.3 | 6.60 |
| Aspartic acid | 53.0 | 47.1 | - | 9.30 | 12.8 |
| Cysteine | 8.70 | 6.10 | 11.4 | 1.00 | 2.00 |
| Glutamic acid | 67.0 | 58.5 | - | 10.3 | 16.5 |
| Glycine | 17.5 | 16.7 | 19.1 | 11.7 | 4.30 |
| Proline | 19.6 | 15.7 | 19.0 | 7.50 | 5.20 |
| Serine | 38.8 | 33.6 | 31.4 | 4.50 | 12.2 |
| Tyrosine | - | 16.6 | 22.7 | 5.20 | 5.20 |
| Total | 495 | 478 | 436 | 124 | 140 |