Amino acid Fish meal Grasshopper meal
Lysine 7.85 5.87
Histidine 2.22 4.24
Arginine 5.82 7.62
Aspartic 9.35 9.32
Threonine 4.55 4.08
Serine 4.55 5.22
Glutamic 13.3 15.21
Proline 4.35 5.02
Glycine 5.90 4.78
Alanine 6.34 5.29
Cysteine 0.70 1.79
Valine 5.65 3.47
Methionine 2.84 1.96
Isoleucine 4.85 4.21
Leucine 7.35 5.30
Tyrosine 3.45 2.88
Phenylalanine 4.35 4.50
SOURCE: Okoye(2003).
Table 1: Comparative Amino acid profile of the proteins of fishmeal and grasshopper meal
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