| 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). |