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Table 3 Amino acid composition of the experimental diets (mg/g)

From: Dietary intake of cod and scallop reduces atherosclerotic burden in female apolipoprotein E-deficient mice fed a Western-type high fat diet for 13 weeks

 

Dietary treatments

 

Chicken

Cod-scallop

Hydroxyproline

0.2

0.2

Histidine

4.5

2.2

Taurine

0.1

5.3

Serine

5.8

5.7

Arginine

8.1

8.9

Glycine

5.7

10.1

Asparagine + aspartic acid

15.4

15.2

Glutamine + glutamic acid

23.6

22.2

Threonine

6.6

5.7

Alanine

9.0

8.3

Proline

5.2

4.1

Lysine

14.7

13.2

Tyrosine

3.5

3.0

Methionine

6.3

6.3

Valine

7.6

6.1

Isoleucine

7.3

6.1

Leucine

12.0

10.6

Phenylalanine

5.5

4.7

Cysteine

1.9

2.1

Tryptophan

1.62

1.23

SAA

144.52

135.93

EAA1

66.12

56.13

BCAA2

26.9

22.8

  1. SAA sum amino acids; 1Sum of essential amino acids (histidine, isoleucine, leucine, methionine, lysine, valine, tryptophane, threonine, phenylalanine). 2Sum of branched-chain amino acids (isoleucine, leucine and valine)