TABLE 4.

Amino acid composition of the cooked meals (mg per 100 mg, 470 g per meal)¹

Amino acids	Pasture	Grain	Lamb	BB
EAAs
Isoleucine	0.40	0.42	0.49	0.40
Leucine	0.75	0.78	0.89	0.74
Valine	0.49	0.50	0.58	0.51
Histidine	0.28	0.28	0.33	0.23
Lysine	0.66	0.72	0.80	0.53
Methionine	0.27	0.28	0.32	0.18
Phenylalanine	0.44	0.46	0.52	0.53
Threonine	0.39	0.40	0.47	0.33
NEAAs
Alanine	0.52	0.50	0.59	0.39
Arginine	0.57	0.57	0.65	0.65
Aspartic acid	0.86	0.89	1.01	0.98
Glutamic acid	2.04	2.12	2.38	2.13
Glycine	0.53	0.42	0.47	0.34
Proline	0.66	0.61	0.70	0.66
Serine	0.37	0.38	0.41	0.41
Tyrosine	0.34	0.35	0.40	0.38
BCAAs	1.64	1.70	1.96	1.65
EAAs	3.68	3.85	4.41	3.44
NEAAs	5.89	5.85	6.62	5.94
NPAAs	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
TAAs	9.57	9.70	11.03	9.38

¹NPAA was not available in this analysis. The test meal groups contained either pasture-raised beef (Pasture), grain-finished beef (Grain), pasture-raised lamb (Lamb), or BB. BB, Beyond Burger (Beyond Meat); BCAA, branched-chain amino acid; EAA, essential amino acid; NEAA, nonessential amino acid; NPAA, non-proteogenic amino acid; TAA, total amino acid.