Table 3
Free amino acid profile of the leg muscle during 7-week storage at −20 °C

Amino acid

Storage period (week)

0

1

3

5

7

Nutritionally non-essential amino acid (mg 100 g−1, wet base)

 Alanine

270.9

264.5

278.4

264.3

176.0

 Aspartic acid

1.2

3.9

4.8

4.2

5.3

 Glutamic acid

26.0

21.2

10.7

26.9

26.6

 Glycine

657.0

582.8

562.8

450.1

359.3

 Tyrosine

59.1

20.9

31.7

19.5

20.0

 Sum

1014.2

893.3

888.4

765.0

567.2

Nutritionally essential amino acid (mg 100 g−1, wet base)

 Threonine

1.3

7.0

18.3

5.1

21.5

 Valine

58.1

46.2

59.4

56.2

53.2

 Methionine

60.5

33.4

43.1

59.6

47.9

 Isoleucine

53.3

37.3

36.8

50.6

39.1

 Leucine

68.9

52.3

44.4

65.4

72.8

 Phenylalanine

61.8

39.1

51.0

42.0

36.6

 Lysine

91.7

83.0

93.2

121.1

71.7

 Arginine

672.6

609.3

293.3

387.2

231.2

 Sum

1068.2

907.6

639.5

787.2

573.7

Other amino acid (mg 100 g−1, wet base)

 Phosphoserine

3.8

8.8

4.5

6.8

5.3

 Taurine

210.0

172.7

192.9

182.6

135.0

 Sarcosine

75.1

58.7

68.7

47.2

53.8

 Ammonia

19.7

12.2

7.6

9.8

12.7

 Sum

308.6

252.4

273.7

246.4

206.8

Total

2391.0

2053.3

1801.6

1798.6

1347.7