Table 2.

Digestible Indispensable Amino Acid Scores (DIAAS) and limiting indispensable amino acids (IAA_LIM) from Adhikari et al. (2022)

Product category		Product	DIAAS (%)a	IAALIM
Animal-sourced foods		Beef	130	Valine
		Cheese	141	Methionine
		Eggs	122	Methionine
		Pork	139	Valine
Plant-sourced foods		Nuts	86	Lysine
		Peas	88	Valine
		Tofu	105	Methionine
		Wheat	43	Lysine

^aWhere direct data for the products covered in Poore and Nemecek (2018a) were unavailable in Adhikari et al. (2022), the best available substitute was used