Tetramino

Food profile: Spinach, cooked, boiled

Full name: Spinach, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt

Category: Vegetables

Efficiency: 0.72.

Amino Acid Score: > 100 (116).

Amino acid quantities (g per 100 g)

In relative terms, this food in particularly poor in methionine and rich in tyrosine.

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General nutritional values

Macronutrient quantities (g) per 100 g

Energy: 23 kcal for 100 g.

51.7 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)
methionine 18.5 16
leucine 77.8 59
lysine 61.3 45
methionine + cysteine 30.3 22
valine 56.6 39
histidine 22.2 15
isoleucine 51.2 30
threonine 42.8 23
tryptophan 13.5 6
phenylalanine + tyrosine 83.2 30

Food pairs including this food

                                               
PairBest efficiencyAmino profile similarity
Spinach, cooked-Broccoli, cooked 0.750.70
Spinach, cooked-Bread, wheat 0.720.72
Chickpeas (garbanzo beans, bengal gram)-Spinach, cooked 0.720.66
Sweet potato, cooked-Spinach, cooked 0.760.73
Spinach, cooked-Bread, pita 0.730.68

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