Amino acids	Average amino acid content (g/100 g TM dried/powder)	Average amino acid content (g/100 g TM frozen) **	Beef and veal (Bos taurus) edible flesha (g/100g)	Rice (Oryza spp.) brown or huskeda (g/100g)	Pork (Suidae) edible flesha (g/100g)	Chicken (Gallus gallus) edible flesha (g/100g)	Wheat (Triticum spp.) whole graina (g/100g)
Alanine	3.85	1.094	1.033	0.474	0.654	0.682	0.472
Arginine	2.80	0.796	1.118	0.650	0.756	1.114	0.602
Aspartic acid	4.48	1.275	1.590	0.808	1.060	1.834	0.644
Cystine	nr	nr	0.230	0.084	0.133	0.262	0.332
Cysteine + Cystine	0.50	0.141	nr	nr	nr	nr	nr
Glutamic acid	5.46	1.553	2.703	1.622	1.718	3.002	3.900
Glycine	2.84	0.807	0.86	0.393	0.676	1.059	0.512
Histidine*	1.63	0.464	0.603	0.197	0.391	0.525	0.299
Hydroxyproline	0.11	0.033	nr	nr	nr	nr	nr
Isoleucine*	2.24	0.638	0.852	0.300	0.608	1.069	0.426
Leucine*	3.79	1.079	1.435	0.648	0.897	1.472	0.871
Lysine*	3.02	0.858	1.573	0.299	0.961	1.590	0.374
Methionine*	0.70	0.200	0.478	0.183	0.321	0.502	0.196
Ornithine	< 0.05 (LOQ)	< 0.05 (LOQ)	nr	nr	nr	nr	nr
Phenylalanine*	1.87	0.532	0.778	0.406	0.496	0.800	0.589
Proline	3.58	1.018	0.668	0.369	0.542	0.829	1.289
Serine	2.44	0.695	0.713	0.427	0.496	0.781	0.600
Threonine*	2.21	0.629	0.812	0.307	0.583	0.794	0.382
Tryptophan*	0.65	0.185	nr	nr	0.162	0.205	nr
Tyrosine	3.76	1.069	0.637	0.275	0.426	0.669	0.391
Valine*	3.20	0.911	0.886	0.433	0.616	1.018	0.577

nr: results not reported.

^*Essential amino acids; LOQ: Limit of Quantification.

^**Values calculated from TM dried (average dry matter content: TM dried = 98.14%, TM frozen = 27.92%, from Table 1).

^aValues from (FAO, 1970).