Pasta, cooked, unenriched, with added salt

cooked · USDA SR Legacy, FDC ID 172014 (Cereal Grains and Pasta)

Protein /100 g5.8 g
Amino acid score51%
Limiting amino acidlysine
Amino acidg / 100 gg / 100 g protein
Leucine Essential (BCAA)0.447.6
Isoleucine Essential (BCAA)0.233.9
Valine Essential (BCAA)0.264.5
Lysine Essential0.132.3
Threonine Essential0.213.6
Phenylalanine Essential0.305.1
Methionine Essential0.071.1
Histidine Essential0.132.3
Tryptophan Essential0.081.4
Glutamic acid Non-essential2.0535.3
Aspartic acid Non-essential0.284.8
Proline Non-essential0.7012.0
Alanine Non-essential0.203.4
Serine Non-essential0.284.7
Tyrosine Non-essential0.111.9
Arginine Non-essential0.213.6
Cysteine Non-essential0.111.9
Glycine Non-essential0.203.4
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Amino acid score compares this food's scarcest essential amino acid with the WHO/FAO/UNU 2007 adult pattern; 100%+ means every essential amino acid is carried in good proportion. Data: USDA SR Legacy, FDC ID 172014 (Cereal Grains and Pasta). Educational reference, not medical advice.