Insects | Essential Amino Acid Profile | Source | |||||||||||||
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Arginine | Cystine | Histidine | Isoleucine | Leucine | Lysine | Methionine | Phenylalanine | Threnine | Tryptophan | Tyrosine | Valine | Total | |||
BSF | Larvae | 5.2 | ND | 3.6 | 4.4 | 7.2 | 6.5 | 1.9 | 4.0 | 3.3 | 1.22 | ND | 6.7 | 44.0 | [30] [17] |
Pre-pupae | 5.1 | ND | 3.7 | 4.5 | 6.8 | 5.7 | 1.7 | 3.9 | 3.9 | ND | ND | 6.1 | 41.4 | ||
HF | Larvae | 4.9 | 0.7 | 2.8 | 3.2 | 5.7 | 6.9 | 2.2 | 5.0 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 5.1 | 4.4 | 47.5 | [20] [17] |
Pupae | 4.7 | 0.4 | 2.4 | 3.5 | 5.3 | 5.5 | 2.1 | 4.4 | 3.2 | ND | 5.2 | 4.2 | 40.9 | ||
MW | Larvae | 5.8 | 5.8 | 3.6 | 6.7 | 10.7 | 6.4 | 2.1 | 5.4 | 5.1 | 1.6 | 7.8 | 8.2 | 69.0 | [17] |
GH | Meal | 5.6 | 1.1 | 3.0 | 4 | 5.8 | 4.7 | 2.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 0.8 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 41.5 | [18]; [31] |
SW | Pre-Pupae | 4.69 | 0.52 | 2.79 | 4.33 | 6.5 | 6.6 | 2.12 | 5.17 | 4.48 | ND | 6.32 | 5.3 | 48.8 | [26]; |
Pupae | 6.31 | 0.97 | 3.28 | 4.73 | 7.04 | 7.52 | 3.88 | 5.58 | 5.58 | 1.70 | 6.55 | 5.7 | 58.84 | [28] | |
FM | 6.2 | 0.8 | 2.4 | 4.2 | 7.2 | 7.5 | 2.7 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 1.0 | 3.1 | 4.9 | 48 | [16] | |
SBM | 2.90 | 0.74 | 1.02 | 2.07 | 7.72 | 2.62 | 0.52 | 2.12 | 1.66 | 0.65 | 3.11 | 2.6 | 27.73 | [28] |