TABLE 2.

Chemical and amino acid composition of black soldier fly larvae meal (BSF), fish meal (FM) and soy protein concentrate (SPC).

	BSF	FM a	SPC a
Chemical composition (%)
Crude Protein	53.0	65.9	63.3
True Protein b	39.0	-	-
Crude Lipid	13.4	10.7	2.0
Amino acid composition (mg/g)
His	13.5	18.2	15.5
Ser	20.9	32.6	32.4
Arg	24.1	42.3	42.9
Gly	24.2	50.3	25.6
Asp	51.0	69.2	71.3
Glu	58.0	105	114
Thr	20.8	33.3	25.1
Ala	31.0	47.2	26.3
Pro	27.8	32.1	30.9
Lys	35.0	58.8	37.0
Tyr	28.0	24.6	22.3
Met	9.5	19.6	9.0
Val	29.7	37.8	28.5
Ile	23.4	30.2	27.5
Leu	36.0	57.1	47.4
Phe	22.1	28.9	32.1

^a Data obtained from Leeper et al., 2022.

^b True protein = sum of anhydrous amino acids.

BSF , black soldier fly; FM , fish meal; SPC , soy protein concentrate.