Amino Acids

Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins. When taken up into the body, the twenty one standard amino acids are either used to synthesis proteins or oxidize to urea and carbon dioxide as a sauce of energy. The body contains twenty standard amino acids.

9 Essential amino acids-Histidine, Isoleucine, Leucine, lysine, Methionine, Phenylanine, Threonine, Tryptophan and valine.


12 non essential amino acids- Alanine, arginine, aspartric acid, cysteine and cystine, glutamic acid, glutamine, glycine, orinthine, proline, serine, taurine and tyrosine.