A Review and Meta-analysis of the Effects of Replacing Fishmeal with Insect Meals on Growth of Tilapias and Sharptooth Catfish

Table 3

Essential amino acid (g/100 g) profile of insects in Southern Africa and the amino acid requirements of tilapias and sharptooth catfish.

	Gonimbrasia belina^1	Schistocerca gregaria^2	Musca domestica^2	Macrotermes natalensis^3	Gryllotalpa africana^2	Fishmeal^1	Tilapias^4	Sharptooth catfish^5
Arginine	3.2	—	—	0.67	—	4.2	2.28	1.20
Cysteine	—	0.8	0.7	—	0.8	0.34	—	—
Histidine	1.65	3.0	2.4	0.67	2.3	1.4	1.05	0.42
Isoleucine	2.22	4.0	3.2	0.47	4.4	2.6	2.01	0.73
Leucine	3.50	5.8	5.4	0.9	9.8	4.5	3.40	0.98
Lysine	3.58	4.7	6.1	0.7	5.4	4.8	3.78	1.43
Methionine	0.89	1.4	2.2	0.2	1.4	1.5	0.9	0.64
Phenylalanine	2.51	3.4	4.6	1.09	3.0	2.9	2.50	1.40
Threonine	2.73	3.5	3.5	0.56	3.6	2.5	2.93	0.50
Tryptophan	0.68	0.8	1.5	0.06	0.6	3.4	0.43	0.14
Tyrosine	3.57	3.3	4.7	—	5.2	4.6	1.80	—
Valine	3.14	5.1	4.0	0.61	5.1	3.1	—	0.84
Essential amino acid index (EAAI)	2.2637	2.9503	3.2613	0.5135	3.1050	2.6818

¹Rapatsa and Moyo [31]; ²Tran et al. [34]; ³Igwe et al. [43]; ⁴Jauncey et al. [23]; ⁵Hecht et al. [36].