Table 5.
Overviewed of the range for digestible indispensable amino acid score (DIAAS) values, the first limiting indispensable amino acid (IAAlim) and its standardized ileal digestibility (SID) for different food groups. For IAAlim, data in brackets indicate total amount of times the IAA was IAAlim in the food group, followed by the number of occurrences for which this was for a product with DIAAS < 100 and the number of occurrences for which this was for a product with DIAAS > 100. Data from Table 4.
| Food Group | Number of Food items | DIAAS Value (Range) | SID IAAlim (Range) |
IAAlim |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beef | 11 | 80–130 | 95–99 | Valine (n = 8/5/3), Leucine (n = 2/1/1), SAA * (n = 1/0/1) |
| Cereals | 25 | 1–77 | 13–96 | Lysine (n = 23/23/0), SAA * (n = 2/2/0) |
| Dairy | 8 | 97–144 | 94–101 | SAA (n = 4/0/4), Histidine (n = 4/1/4) |
| Legumes | 15 | 43–105 | 75–101 | SAA * (n = 10/9/1) Valine (n = 3/3/0) Lysine (n = 1/1/0) Threonine (n = 1/1/0) |
| Pork | 11 | 117–142 | 93–97 | Valine (n = 10/0/10) Leucine (n = 1/0/1) |
| Egg | 1 | 122 | 75 | SAA * (n = 1/0/1) |
| Nuts | 2 | 83–86 | 77–87 | Lysine (n = 2/2/0) |
| All | 73 | 1–144 | 13–101 | Lysine (n = 26/26) Valine (n = 8/21) SAA * (n = 11/18) Histidine (n = 1/4) Leucine (n = 1/3) Threonine (n = 1/1) |
* SAA: Sulphur-containing amino acids (cysteine + methionine).