Tetramino

Food profile: Sorghum grain

Full name: Sorghum grain

Category: Cereal Grains and Pasta

Efficiency: 0.31.

Amino Acid Score: 48.

Amino acid quantities (g per 100 g)

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

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General nutritional values

Macronutrient quantities (g) per 100 g

Energy: 329 kcal for 100 g.

12.9 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)
lysine 21.6 45
methionine 15.9 16
methionine + cysteine 27.9 22
valine 52.8 39
isoleucine 40.8 30
threonine 32.6 23
histidine 23.2 15
tryptophan 11.7 6
leucine 140.4 59
phenylalanine + tyrosine 81.6 30

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