Tetramino

Food profile: Seeds, sesame butter, tahini, from roasted and toasted kernels (most common type)

Full name: Seeds, sesame butter, tahini, from roasted and toasted kernels (most common type)

Category: Nuts

Efficiency: 0.44.

Amino Acid Score: 71.

Amino acid quantities (g per 100 g)

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

More graphs of amino acids

General nutritional values

Macronutrient quantities (g) per 100 g

Energy: 595 kcal for 100 g.

11.4 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 32.1 45
leucine 76.6 59
valine 55.9 39
isoleucine 43.0 30
threonine 41.5 23
histidine 29.4 15
methionine 33.0 16
methionine + cysteine 53.2 22
phenylalanine + tyrosine 94.9 30
tryptophan 21.9 6

Food pairs including this food

                                                               
PairBest efficiencyAmino profile similarity
Seeds, sesame butter-Turnips, cooked 0.730.25
Seeds, sesame butter-Broccoli, cooked 0.750.47
Beets, cooked-Seeds, sesame butter 0.740.74
Amaranth grain, uncooked-Seeds, sesame butter 0.790.65
Lupins, mature seeds-Seeds, sesame butter 0.690.54
Pumpkin, cooked-Seeds, sesame butter 0.760.36
Eggplant, cooked-Seeds, sesame butter 0.710.64

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