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Table 2 Amino acid profile of whey protein isolate supplement used in the sports beverages

From: Co-ingestion of carbohydrate and whey protein isolates enhance PGC-1α mRNA expression: a randomised, single blind, cross over study

Component

% w/w

Alanine

5.2

Arginine

2.7

Aspartic acid

10.6

Cystine

1.9

Glutamic acid

17.5

Glycine

1.3

*Histidine

1.6

* Isoleucine

6.1

* Leucine

15.3

* Lysine

10.4

* Methionine

2.6

* Phenylalanine

3.4

Proline

4.4

Serine

3.2

* Threonine

4.4

* Tryptophan

2.3

Tyrosine

4.1

* Valine

5.2

  1. * indicates essential amino acid.