Table 2.

Amino acid profiles of the lingzhi mushroom powder (mg/100 mg).

Amino acid type	Amino acid	mg/100 g
Hydrophilic	Arginine (Arg)	436 ± 0.022
	Aspartic acid (Asp)	973 ± 0.014
	Glutamic acid (Gln)	868 ± 0.071
	Histidine (His)	522 ± 0.006
	Lysine (Lys)	556 ± 0.011
	Serine (Ser)	709 ± 0.031
	Threonine (Thr)	766 ± 0.048
Hydrophobic	Alanine (Ala)	844 ± 0.077
	Cysteine (Cys)	29.6 ± 0.045
	Glycine (Gly)	676 ± 0.002
	Isoleucine (Ile)	444 ± 0.007
	Leucine (Leu)	935 ± 0.018
	Methionine (Met)	42.3 ± 0.086
	Phenylalanine (Phe)	417 ± 0.091
	Proline (Pro)	640 ± 0.074
	Tryptophan (Trp)	38.1 ± 0.031
	Tyrosine (Tyr)	229 ± 0.054
	Valine (Val)	670 ± 0.008
Total		9,795 ± 0.051

∗All values take the form of mean ± standard deviation and trials were carried out in triplicate.