Table 3.

Chemical computation and score on the composition of essential amino acids in mesquite protein concentrate.

Essential amino acid	Chemical computation	Chemical score
Isoleucine	1.6 ± 0.8	0.6 ± 0.1
Leucine	5.2 ± 0.1	0.2 ± 0.1
Lysine	0.8 ± 0.3	1.3 ± 0.0
Methionine + cysteine	18.8 ± 0.3	0.1 ± 0.0
Phenylalanine + tyrosine	6.0 ± 0.1	0.2 ± 0.5
Threonine	Not detected	Not detected
Tryptophan	14.4 ± 1.4	0.1 ± 0.0
Valine	1.8 ± 0.3	0.6 ± 0.1

Values are presented as mean ± standard deviation (n = 3 × 2).