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List of articles in category Data
Title Published Date
Mahatma Gandhi 09 January 2017
Isaac Bashevis Singer 09 January 2017
Isaac Bashevis Singer 09 January 2017
Thermic Effect of Food and Negative Calories 16 December 2016
Glycotoxins, Advanced Glycation, dAEG and Cooking 11 December 2016
Fruit for Lower Blood Pressure and Glucose Levels 17 November 2016
Handwashing after Toilet and Handling Raw Meat 13 November 2016
Why and How to Wash Hands with Soap 13 November 2016
Plant Protein Balance 06 November 2016
Protein Quality of Cereal-Based Diets 06 November 2016

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Protein Digestibility-Corrected Amino Acid Score

The protein digestibility-corrected amino acid score (PDCAAS) has been adopted by FAO/WHO as the preferred method for the measurement of the protein value in human nutrition. 

PDCAAS = Amino Acid Score x Digestibility

The method is based on comparison of the concentration of the first limiting essential amino acid in the test protein with the concentration of that amino acid in a reference (scoring) pattern. This scoring pattern is derived from the essential amino acid requirements of the preschool-age child.

Although the principle of the PDCAAS method has been widely accepted, critical questions have been raised in the scientific community:

  1. the validity of the preschool-age child amino acid requirement values (more than 4 times greater than the EAA requirement for an adult),
  2. the validity of correction for fecal instead of ileal digestibility,
  3. the truncation of PDCAAS values to 100%.

The reference scoring pattern was based on studies performed more than 25 years ago on a limited number of 2-year-old children recovering from malnutrition.

According to the current official recommendations, a 2-year old child needs ~ 3x higher essential-to-non-essential amino acid ratio, and needs essential amino acids in different proportions than adult. Methionine/cysteine is the limiting essential amino acids for adults, and for children it is lysine or tryptophan.

The use of fecal digestibility overestimates the nutritional value of a protein because amino acid nitrogen entering the colon is lost for protein synthesis in the body and is, at least in part, excreted in urine as ammonia.

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