The estimation of ‘available lysine’ in human foods by three chemical procedures (original) (raw)

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Seventeen test foods were each analyzed by four methods. Total lysine was measured by conventional amino acid analysis. Reactive lysine was measured with either fluorodinitrobenzene, o-phthalaldehyde or a differential dye-binding procedure. The results were then compared with another group's results from rat growth assays of the same samples for availably lysine. A sample of deliberately heat-damaged milk powder gave a rat assay value corresponding to 64% of its total lysine content; other values were all higher and on average 99% for 7 animal products, and 87% for 9 vegetable products. The correlation coefficient between the two sets of values was 0.95. The ‘reactive lysine’ procedures failed to give a better prediction of the rat values.

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  1. Ralston Purina Co., 63164, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
    Frederick H. Steinke, M. C. Allerd & J. L. MacDonald
  2. Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of California, 94720, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
    Kenneth J. Carpenter & Marc Schelstraete
  3. Department of Food Science, North Carolina State University, 27695-7624, NC, U.S.A.
    George L. Catignani & Harold E. Swaisgood

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Carpenter, K.J., Steinke, F.H., Catignani, G.L. et al. The estimation of ‘available lysine’ in human foods by three chemical procedures.Plant Food Hum Nutr 39, 129–135 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01092409

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