Tetramino

Food profile: Nuts, pecans

Full name: Nuts, pecans

Category: Nuts

Efficiency: 0.54.

Amino Acid Score: 70.

Amino acid quantities (g per 100 g)

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

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General nutritional values

Macronutrient quantities (g) per 100 g

Energy: 691 kcal for 100 g.

5.3 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 31.3 45
leucine 65.2 59
valine 44.8 39
isoleucine 36.6 30
methionine 20.0 16
threonine 33.4 23
methionine + cysteine 36.5 22
tryptophan 10.1 6
histidine 28.6 15
phenylalanine + tyrosine 69.9 30

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