requirement of 46.2 g (70 kg x 0.66 g/kg).

In addition, there is a specific need of essential amino acids quantities. See Essential amino acid for a table of the values; the tables below use a percentage of the requirement.

In the above examples, neither whole rice nor canned chickpeas have sufficient amounts of all required amino acids when used as the only source of 46.2 g of daily protein. The insufficient amino acid is called the limiting amino acid:

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