Tetramino

Recipe: April's lentil soup.

Ingredients

Description

Lentil soup is quick and easy to cook... and full of proteins.

Amino acids

Efficiency: 0.37.

Amino Acid Score: 58.

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General nutritional values

Macronutrient quantities (g) per 100 g

Energy: 843 kcal.

24.1 percents of proteins in total calories.

Ratio of essential amino acids to total protein (mg/g)

Amino acid	In food	Required
	(g/kg protein)	(g/kg protein)
methionine	9.2	16
methionine + cysteine	23.6	22
leucine	75.2	59
valine	52.0	39
isoleucine	45.1	30
lysine	72.2	45
tryptophan	9.6	6
threonine	39.1	23
histidine	29.0	15
phenylalanine + tyrosine	79.5	30

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