AMINO ACIDS

• Non essential - can get from foods (5)
• Essential - only get from food (9)
• Conditionally essential - healthy bodies can make them (6)
• 5 Non essential:

  • Alanine
  • Asparagine
  • Aspartic acid
  • Glutamic acid
  • Serine
• 9 Essential:

  • Histidine
  • Isoleucine
  • Leucine
  • Lysine
  • Methionine
  • Phenylalanine
  • Threonine
  • Tryptophan
  • Valine
• 6 Conditionally essential:

  • Arginine
  • Cysteine
  • Glutamine
  • Glycine
  • Proline
  • Tyrosine