Table 4.

Amino acid composition accumulation of some seaweeds (g amino acid 100 g⁻¹ protein).

No.	Amino Acids (AA)	Caulerpa lentillifera (Green Algae) [88]	Ulva reticulate (Green Algae) [88]	Kappaphycus alvarezii (Red Algae) [89]	Gracilaria salicornia (Red Algae) [89]	Turbinaria ornata (Brown Algae) [90]	Durvillaea antarctica (Brown Algae) [91]
	Essential AA
1	Threonine	6.38	5.41	2.49	2.25	0.15	5.84
2	Valine	7.03	6.30	2.49	2.20	0.23	9.97
3	Lysine	6.63	6.02	1.51	-	0.20	4.22
4	Isoleucine	5.01	4.23	2.14	1.98	0.18	8.05
5	Leucine	8.00	7.90	2.34	2.16	0.26	15.88
6	Phenylalanine	4.93	5.26	2.11	1.79	0.19	9.97
7	Methionine	-	-	1.69	1.61	0.05	3.89
	Non essential AA
8	Aspartic	11.56	12.50	3.33	-	0.53	4.17
9	Serine	6.14	6.39	2.68	2.90	0.10	5.38
10	Glutamic	14.39	12.98	11.67	2.79	0.58	17.87
11	Glycine	6.87	6.49	2.97	2.18	0.22	18.36
12	Arginine	7.03	8.65	2.40	2.40	0.19	4.83
13	Histidine	0.65	1.08	1.60	2.29	0.07	2.26
14	Alanine	6.87	8.09	2.93	2.51	0.23	9.57
15	Tyrosine	3.88	3.62	1.81	1.74	0.05	4.45
16	Proline	4.61	5.08	-	-	0.17	7.95
17	Cystin	-	-	-	-	0.00	0.78