Egg White Hydrolysate Retains the Nutritional Value of Proteins and Is Quickly Absorbed in Rats

Table 4

Amino acid absorption (%) in the ileum of rats fed protein or hydrolysate of milk whey or egg white.

	Milk whey		Egg white
	Protein	Hydrolysate	Protein	Hydrolysate
Ile	99.4	99.3	99.3	99.5
Leu	99.4	99.4	99.4	99.5
Lys	99.8	99.8	99.7	99.8
Met	99.4	99.2	99.7	99.7
Cys	100	100	100	100
Phe	99.3	98.9	98.5	99.6
Tyr	99.7	99.5	99.7	99.8
Thr	99.3	99.3	99.1	99.1
Trp	99.4	99.0	98.9	99.2
Val	99.1	99.0	99.2	99.4
His	99.7	99.5	99.7	99.7