Tetramino

Food profile: Spices, ginger, ground

Full name: Spices, ginger, ground

Category: Herbs and spices

Efficiency: 0.51.

Amino Acid Score: 60.

Amino acid quantities (g per 100 g)

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

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General nutritional values

Macronutrient quantities (g) per 100 g

Energy: 335 kcal for 100 g.

10.7 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 26.8 45
methionine 9.9 16
methionine + cysteine 20.9 22
leucine 57.1 59
valine 45.8 39
isoleucine 38.0 30
threonine 32.2 23
histidine 22.2 15
phenylalanine + tyrosine 61.7 30
tryptophan 16.9 6

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