Table 3. Total amino acid contents of leached tea, liquid tea and solid tea processed from Tenebrio molitor larvae

	Amino acid	Leached tea1)		Liquid tea2)		Solid tea3)
		mg/g	%4)	mg/g	%	mg/g	%
Essentialamino acid	Threonine	8.51	3.06	3.65	3.43	0.36	2.32
	Valine	16.29	5.87	6.77	6.37	1.01	6.48
	Methionine	2.97	1.07	1.03	0.97	0.07	0.47
	Isoleucine	9.78	3.52	4.11	3.87	0.56	3.64
	leucine	13.63	4.91	5.01	4.71	0.69	4.44
	Phenylalanine	9.62	3.46	3.02	2.84	0.42	2.70
	Lysine	19.89	7.16	9.01	8.48	0.79	5.11
	Histidine	15.55	5.60	6.17	5.80	0.53	3.41
Non-essentialamino acid	Aspartic acid	15.90	5.72	5.76	5.42	0.74	4.75
	Serine	7.29	2.62	2.98	2.81	0.35	2.24
	Glutamic acid	29.73	10.70	9.39	8.84	1.92	12.37
	Glycine	13.97	5.03	5.50	5.17	0.40	2.57
	Alanine	27.69	9.97	10.66	10.03	2.44	15.71
	Cystine	2.91	1.05	1.28	1.20	0.07	0.43
	Tyrosine	18.99	6.84	7.63	7.18	0.76	4.89
	Arginine	18.90	6.81	7.12	6.70	1.11	7.19
	Proline	46.14	16.61	17.19	16.17	3.30	21.28
	Total	277.76	100.00	106.28	100.00	15.51	100.00

¹⁾Leached tea is produced by leaching microwave treated Tenebrio molitor L.
²⁾Liquid tea is prepared by diluting the extract of microwave treated Tenebrio molitor L.
³⁾Solid tea is prepared by dissolving the spray dried powder of extract.
⁴⁾(Amino acid/Total amino acid)×100