Tetramino

Food profile: Watercress, raw

Full name: Watercress, raw

Category: Vegetables

Efficiency: 0.32.

Amino Acid Score: 53.

Amino acid quantities (g per 100 g)

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

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General nutritional values

Macronutrient quantities (g) per 100 g

Energy: 11 kcal for 100 g.

83.6 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)
methionine + cysteine 11.7 22
methionine 8.7 16
histidine 17.4 15
leucine 72.2 59
lysine 58.3 45
isoleucine 40.4 30
valine 59.6 39
tryptophan 13.0 6
threonine 57.8 23
phenylalanine + tyrosine 77.0 30

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