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. 2021 Nov 29;8:774203. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2021.774203

Table 2.

Amino acid composition (mg·g⁻¹ protein).

Amino acid	Soy protein	Casein
Tryptophan	7.94 ± 0.30^b	10.2 ± 0.27^a
Aspartic acid	89.4 ± 1.51^a	60.0 ± 2.05^b
Threonine	29.2 ± 0.31^b	34.2 ± 0.13^a
Serine	37.0 ± 2.26^b	41.5 ± 1.63^a
Glutamate	147.9 ± 2.33^b	182.9 ± 2.40^a
Proline	41.6 ± 0.71^b	91.8 ± 1.77^a
Glycine	32.1 ± 2.19^b	15.7 ± 2.55^a
Alanine	33.4 ± 1.13^a	25.7 ± 1.08^b
Cystine	8.84 ± 0.24^b	16.5 ± 0.57^a
Methionine	10.5 ± 0.34^b	25.5 ± 0.25^a
Valine	39.1 ± 0.41^b	57.0 ± 0.34^a
Isoleucine	38.2 ± 0.37^b	45.7 ± 0.35^a
Leucine	62.0 ± 0.34^b	78.0 ± 0.34^a
Tyrosine	25.2 ± 0.33^b	45.1 ± 0.43^a
Phenylalanine	43.2 ± 0.43^a	44.8 ± 0.36^a
Lysine	49.8 ± 0.62^b	69.0 ± 0.32^a
Histidine	20.6 ± 0.43^a	25.0 ± 0.37^a
Arginine	58.1 ± 2.19^a	31.1 ± 2.05^b

Data are presented as the mean ± SD (n = 3). The letters after the data indicate the statistical difference (p < 0.05).