Tetramino

Food profile: Lotus root, cooked, boiled

Full name: Lotus root, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt

Category: Vegetables

Efficiency: 0.65.

Amino Acid Score: 45.

Amino acid quantities (g per 100 g)

In relative terms, this food in particularly poor in leucine and rich in cysteine.

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General nutritional values

Macronutrient quantities (g) per 100 g

Energy: 66 kcal for 100 g.

9.6 percents of proteins in total calories.

Table of nutritional values

Ratio of essential amino acids to total protein (mg/g)

Amino acid In food Required
(g/kg protein) (g/kg protein)
leucine 26.6 59
valine 21.5 39
methionine 8.9 16
isoleucine 20.9 30
lysine 36.1 45
methionine + cysteine 17.7 22
threonine 19.6 23
phenylalanine + tyrosine 28.5 30
histidine 14.6 15
tryptophan 7.6 6

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