AMINO ACIDS

The Uses of AMINO ACIDS

Amino Acids is the food additive amino acids may be safely used as nutrients added to foods. the food additive consists of one or more of the following individual amino acids in the free, hydrated, or anhydrous form or as the hydrochloride, sodium, or potassium salts: l-alanine, l-arginine, l-asparagine, l-aspartic acid, l-cysteine, l-cys- tine, l-glutamic acid, l-glutamine, aminoacetic acid (glycine), l-his- tidine, l-isoleucine, l-leucine, l-lysine, dl-methionine (not for infant foods), l-methionine, l-phenylalanine, l-proline, l-serine, l-threo- nine, l-tryptophan, l-tyrosine, or l-valine. the additive(s) is used to significantly improve the biological quality of the total protein in a food containing naturally occurring, primarily intact protein that is considered a significant dietary protein source. the amount of the additive added for nutritive purposes plus the amount naturally present in free and combined (as protein) form should not exceed the levels of amino acids expressed as percent by weight of the total protein of the finished food.