The Amino Acid Composition and the Nutritive Value of Proteins
- 1 December 1959
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Nutrition
- Vol. 69 (4) , 387-391
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jn/69.4.387
Abstract
The minimum requirements for the essential amino acids by the weanling rat for maximum growth have been determined, using casein-amino acid diets at the 10% protein level. Growth tests were of 21 days' duration. The requirements for lysine, histidine, tryptophan, isoleucine, leucine, valine, threonine, methionine + cystine, and phenylalanine + tyrosine are: 0.9, 0.21, 0.11, 0.55, 0.69, 0.56, 0.51, 0.49 and 0.72% of the diet, respectively.Keywords
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