Quality of Cattle Meat and Its Compositional Constituents

Table 2

Nutritional composition of meat.

Essential amino acids
Amino acids	Category	Beef	Lamb	Pork
Lysine	Essential	8.2	7.5	7.9
Leucine	Essential	8.5	7.2	7.6
Isoleucine	Essential	5.0	4.7	4.8
Cystine	Essential	1.5	1.5	1.2
Threonine	Essential	4.2	4.8	5.2
Methionine	Essential	2.2	2.4	2.6
Tryptophan	Essential	1.3	1.2	1.5
Phenylalanine	Essential	4.1	3.8	4.3
Arginine	Essential	6.4	6.8	6.6
Histidine	Essential	2.8	2.9	3.1
Valine	Essential	5.6	5.1	5.2
Nonessential amino acids
Amino acid	Category	Beef	Lamb	Pork
Proline	Nonessential	5.2	4.7	4.4
Glutamic acid	Nonessential	14.3	14.5	14.6
Aspartic acid	Nonessential	8.9	8.6	8.8
Glycine	Nonessential	7.2	6.8	6.0
Tyrosine	Nonessential	3.3	3.3	3.1
Serine	Nonessential	3.9	3.8	4.1
Alanine	Nonessential	6.3	6.2	6.4

Source: [61].