Table 3. Comparison of amino acid contents in specific soybean cultivar

Contents (mg/100 g) Soybean cultivars
Saedanbaek Jinyang Wooram
Non-essential amino acids
Aspartic acid 7,013.14±350.66e1) 3,149.74±157.49d 3,144.31±157.22e
Serine 2,970.50±148.53j 1,394.62±69.73g 1,406.94±70.35h
Glutamic acid 11,331.62±566.58d 5,713.54±285.68c 5,533.13±276.66d
Glycine 2,493.42±124.67j 1,202.80±60.14h 1,196.06±59.80j
Alanine 2,540.08±127.00j 1,209.82±60.49h 1,219.13±60.96i
Cystine 747.42±37.37m 358.34±17.92k 413.04±20.65i
Tyrosine 1,850.10±92.51k 843.94±42.20i 902.68±45.13k
Arginine 5,492.28±274.61f 2,196.52±109.83e 2,099.06±104.95f
Totals 23,482.36±1,174.12b 11,275.38±563.77b 15,914.34±795.72b
Essential amino acids
Threonine 2,230.44±111.52j 1,112.31±55.62h 1,129.39±56.47j
Valine 2,586.54±129.33j 1,260.67±63.03h 1,235.79±61.79i
Methionine 550.34±27.52n 314.26±15.71k 292.26±14.61m
Isoleucine 2,669.84±133.49j 1,281.89±64.09h 1,297.00±64.85i
Leucine 4,610.58±230.53g 2,234.48±111.72e 2,278.03±113.90f
Phenylalanine 3,138.04±156.90i 1,491.66±74.58g 1,492.42±74.62h
Lysine 3,665.78±183.29h 1,754.27±87.71f 1,798.65±89.93g
Histidine 1,664.62±83.23k 801.02±40.05j 812.75±40.64k
Total 21,116.18±1,055.81c 10,250.55±512.53b 10,336.29±516.81c
Total amino acids 44,598.54±2,229.93a 21,525.93±1,076.30a 26,250.63±1,312.53a
Ammonia 930.30±46.52l 403.71±20.19k 383.68±19.18l
1)All values are presented as the mean±SD of triplicate determination. Means with different lowercase letters (a-n) indicate significant (p<0.05) differences of samples by Duncan’s multiple range test.