Table 1. Differences in amino acid composition between cultured muscle tissue derived from chicken and cattle and traditional meat
Amino acids | Chicken | Cattle | SEM | p-value | Contrast |
CMT | TM | CMT | TM | Meat | Animal | Meat×Anim |
Aspartic acid | 9.37B | 9.93A | 8.59C | 9.76AB | 0.156 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | 0.009 |
Glutamic acid | 15.42B | 17.30A | 14.56B | 15.89AB | 0.635 | 0.004 | 0.002 | 0.014 | 0.467 |
Threonine | 4.51A | 4.79A | 3.60B | 4.96A | 0.180 | <0.001 | <0.001 | 0.008 | <0.001 |
Serine | 4.93A | 4.23BC | 4.61AB | 3.95C | 0.156 | <0.001 | <0.001 | 0.010 | 0.776 |
Proline | 5.73A | 3.78B | 6.64A | 3.60B | 0.371 | <0.001 | <0.001 | 0.127 | 0.034 |
Glycine | 7.91A | 5.02B | 7.68A | 4.98B | 0.390 | <0.001 | <0.001 | 0.565 | 0.614 |
Alanine | 6.88B | 6.41C | 7.92A | 6.53BC | 0.174 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | 0.001 |
Cysteine | 0.43B | 0.57B | 1.47A | 0.54B | 0.085 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 |
Valine | 4.71 | 4.55 | 4.93 | 4.76 | 0.206 | 0.240 | 0.204 | 0.109 | 0.989 |
Methionine | 1.80B | 2.44AB | 3.49A | 2.52AB | 0.474 | 0.015 | 0.015 | 0.012 | 0.019 |
Isoleucine | 3.75B | 4.49A | 3.32C | 4.52A | 0.110 | <0.001 | <0.001 | 0.013 | 0.006 |
Leucine | 7.75B | 8.63A | 7.35B | 9.02A | 0.246 | <0.001 | <0.001 | 0.991 | 0.023 |
Tyrosine | 3.64 | 3.91 | 3.58 | 3.95 | 0.232 | 0.201 | 0.044 | 0.961 | 0.701 |
Phenylalanine | 4.57A | 4.82A | 3.68B | 4.78A | 0.280 | 0.003 | 0.003 | 0.020 | 0.030 |
Histidine | 2.38B | 2.79B | 2.83B | 3.98A | 0.180 | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 | 0.007 |
Lysine | 8.46B | 9.50A | 7.43C | 9.73A | 0.297 | <0.001 | <0.001 | 0.046 | 0.006 |
Arginine | 7.70B | 6.81C | 8.28A | 6.45C | 0.153 | <0.001 | <0.001 | 0.243 | <0.001 |
Means with different superscripts in the same row are significantly different (p<0.05).
CMT, cultured muscle tissue; TM, traditional meat.