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Table 2.

Amino acid profile of pistachios. Minimum, maximum and average content of amino acids in pistachio nuts

Amino acids (g/100 g proteins)	Essential amino acids										Some non-essential amino acids
Amino acids (g/100 g proteins)	Lys	His	Thr	Val	Met	Cys	Ile	Leu	Phe + Tyr	Trp	Asp + Glu	Ser	Pro	Arg	Gly	Ala
Minimum	4.9 [24]	2.3 [16]	2.9 [24]	5.2 [24]	0.89 [23]	0.95 [24]	4.1 [16]	6.8 [24]	7.8 [16]	0.65 [23]	13.1 [25]	5.37 [24]	3.36 [24]	8.52 [24]	4.36 [24]	3.70 [24]
Maximum	7.30 [23]	2.7 [24]	4.09 [23]	6.1 [25]	1.8 [25]	2.6 [16]	4.7 [25]	9.18 [23]	10.53 [23]	1.4 [16]	29.69 [23]	7.32 [23]	7.31 [23]	11.64 [23]	5.45 [23]	5.37 [23]
Average	6.1	2.5	3.5	5.6	1.3	1.8	4.4	8.0	9.2	1.0	21.40	6.35	5.33	10.08	4.91	4.53
Reference protein [22]	4.5	1.5	2.3	3.9	1.6	0.6	3.0	5.9	3.8	0.6	/	/	/	/	/	/

Lys: lysine; His: histidine; Thr: threonine; Val: valine; Met: methionine; Cys: cysteine; Ile: isoleucine; Leu: leucine; Phe: phenylalanine; Thr: threonine; Asp: aspartic acid; Glu: glutamic acid; Ser: serine; Pro: proline; Arg: arginine; Gly: glycine; Ala: alanine. The symbol “/” indicate that the amino acids are not essentials

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Author contributions

JRG: Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing—original draft. MP: Conceptualization Investigation, Writing—original draft, Supervision. MCP: Writing—review & editing, Supervision. MVS: Conceptualization, Writing—review & editing, Supervision. All authors read and approved the submitted version.

Conflicts of interest

The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

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Funding

This work was financially supported by Ministerio Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (MINCyT); Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica (ANPCyT); Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET); and Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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