Skip to main content

Table 1 Traditional classification of AA as EAA and NEAA in swine nutrition

From: Biochemical and physiological bases for utilization of dietary amino acids by young Pigs

EAA

NEAA

Arginine1

Alanine

Histidine

Asparagine

Isoleucine

Aspartate

Leucine

Cysteine2

Lysine

Glutamate2

Methionine

Glutamine2

Phenylalanine

Glycine2

Threonine

Proline2

Tryptophan

Serine

Valine

Tyrosine2

  1. 1Currently classified as an EAA for young pigs.
  2. 2Currently considered as conditionally essential amino acids. They are synthesized insufficiently by animals at certain developmental stages or under certain feeding conditions.
  3. EAA = nutritionally essential AA.
  4. NEAA = nutritionally nonessential AA.
Back to article page

Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology

ISSN: 2049-1891