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Table 1

Levels of essential, conditionally-essential and non-essential amino acids found in canola meal and protein products derived from canola.

Amino acid Canola protein products, g amino acid/100 g protein

Canola meal, Alkali extracted and 11S
g/100 g CPa acid precipitated SuperteinTM,c Puratein®, c IsolexxTM, d 2S isolatee concentratee
protein isolateb

Essential
Cysteine 2.29 0.39 4.5 1.6 2.0 8.1 1.4
Histidine 3.39 3.17 3.6 2.5 3.1 3.5 1.7
Isoleucine 3.47 5.18 3.0 4.4 4.2 6.0 6.1
Leucine 6.19 9.26 6.0 8.2 7.8 6.8 6.6
Lysine 5.92 5.62 7.4 4.0 5.5 3.4 4.6
Methionine 1.94 2.60 2.4 1.9 2.0 2.7 2.2
Phenylalanine 4.06 5.13 2.6 4.9 4.4 4.3 4.0
Threonine 4.27 5.30 3.2 3.7 4.5 4.5 4.3
Tryptophan 1.33 not reported 1.4 2.0 1.5 1.3 1.2
Tyrosine 2.50 3.93 1.4 4.1 3.3 3.4 2.5
Valine 4.97 5.85 4.3 5.5 5.0 5.1 4.6

Conditionally essential
Arginine 6.62 7.66 5.8 7.2 7.6 5.4 5.3
Glutamine+Glutamate 18.14 17.27 24.6 19.8 19.8 14.2 19.8
Glycine 4.92 5.05 4.3 5.4 5.4 6.5 6.8
Proline 5.97 4.32 9.2 5.8 5.8 4.7 6.8

Non-essential
Alanine 4.36 5.14 4.0 4.2 4.5 5.2 5.3
Aspartic acid+Aspartate 7.25 9.41 2.6 9.3 8.8 11.4 10.5
Serine 4.00 4.74 3.3 4.1 4.9 5.2 5.5
b

bTzeng et al., 1988,

c

GRAS Notice 327, 2010,

e

Wanasundara and McIntosh, 2013 and Wanasundara, unpublished data.

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