Treatment and Valorization of Palm Oil Mill Effluent through Production of Food Grade Yeast Biomass

Table 4

Amino acid profile of isolate cultured in POME in g/100 g of protein.

Amino acids	Amino acid content; g/100 g protein	FAO/WHO; Standard
*Phe + Tyr	8.68	6.3
Isoleucine	3.09	2.8
Leucine	10.25	6.6
Lysine	6.01	5.8
Methionine	5.05	2.5
Tryptophan	6.76	1.1
Valine	7.13	3.5
Threonine	3.57	3.4
Histidine	1.91	1.9
Total essential	52.45	33.9
Proline	1.87	10.7
Alanine	2.97	6.1
Glutamine	2.95
Glutamic acid	11.1	14.7
Glycine	3.71	2.2
Serine	3.57	7.7
Arginine	3.85	5.2
Aspartic acid	2.60	7.7
Asparagine	8.54
Trimethylserine	3.53
Total nonessential	34.70	54.3
Total amino acids	87.15	88.2

FAO/WHO (1991) [45].
*Phe and Tyr were taken together.