Comparison of the Nutritional and Taste Characteristics of 5 Edible Fungus Powders Based on the Composition of Hydrolyzed Amino Acids and Free Amino Acids

Table 1

Contents of hydrolyzed amino acids in 5 kinds of edible fungus powders.

Compound	Agrocybe chaxinggu edible fungus powder	Pleurotus citrinopileatus edible fungus powder	Flammulina velutipes edible fungus powder	Lentinus edodes edible fungus powder	Hericium erinaceus edible fungus powder
Aspartic acid and asparagine	1.571 ± 0.015	0.613 ± 0.001	0.531 ± 0.002	0.737 ± 0.002	0.247 ± 0.005
Threonine	0.744 ± 0.012	0.510 ± 0.009	0.147 ± 0.003	0.192 ± 0.002	0.107 ± 0.005
Serine	0.768 ± 0.003	0.469 ± 0.006	0.280 ± 0.006	0.399 ± 0.004	0.099 ± 0.003
Glutamic acid and glutamine	2.536 ± 0.012	2.894 ± 0.001	2.198 ± 0.031	2.969 ± 0.030	0.432 ± 0.001
Glycine	0.799 ± 0.008	0.867 ± 0.004	0.468 ± 0.004	0.650 ± 0.002	0.165 ± 0.003
Alanine	1.491 ± 0.004	1.427 ± 0.059	1.065 ± 0.024	1.859 ± 0.014	0.414 ± 0.005
Valine	1.021 ± 0.014	1.202 ± 0.023	0.585 ± 0.002	0.809 ± 0.014	0.207 ± 0.012
Methionine	0.022 ± 0.002	0.113 ± 0.011	ND	ND	ND
Isoleucine	0.583 ± 0.011	0.677 ± 0.003	0.301 ± 0.004	0.423 ± 0.005	0.068 ± 0.002
Leucine	1.379 ± 0.017	1.703 ± 0.037	0.821 ± 0.001	1.135 ± 0.009	0.298 ± 0.002
Tyrosine	0.507 ± 0.004	0.636 ± 0.008	0.414 ± 0.001	0.406 ± 0.015	0.111 ± 0.000
Phenylalanine	0.714 ± 0.010	0.849 ± 0.004	0.537 ± 0.003	0.567 ± 0.025	0.112 ± 0.006
Lysine	0.754 ± 0.002	1.082 ± 0.006	0.622 ± 0.002	0.710 ± 0.005	0.102 ± 0.001
Histidine	0.300 ± 0.004	0.410 ± 0.005	0.217 ± 0.003	0.257 ± 0.003	0.057 ± 0.003
Arginine	0.943 ± 0.009	1.204 ± 0.027	0.554 ± 0.009	0.799 ± 0.012	0.165 ± 0.001
Proline	0.434 ± 0.016	ND	ND	ND	ND
Total	14.567 ± 0.024	14.656 ± 0.287	8.739 ± 0.016	11.912 ± 0.092	2.583 ± 0.010

Value (g/100 g) = mean ± SD (n = 3). ND: not detectable.