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  2. Amino acid - Wikipedia

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    Codon–amino acids mappings may be the biological information system at the primordial origin of life on Earth. [122] While amino acids and consequently simple peptides must have formed under different experimentally probed geochemical scenarios, the transition from an abiotic world to the first life forms is to a large extent still unresolved ...

  3. Protein (nutrient) - Wikipedia

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    Most peptides longer than four amino acids are not absorbed. Absorption into the intestinal absorptive cells is not the end. There, most of the peptides are broken into single amino acids. Absorption of the amino acids and their derivatives into which dietary protein is degraded is done by the gastrointestinal tract.

  4. Diet (nutrition) - Wikipedia

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    Bahasa Indonesia; IsiXhosa; Íslenska ... diet is the sum of food consumed by a person or other organism. [1] ... essential amino acids from protein and essential ...

  5. Human nutrition - Wikipedia

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    Amino acids are soluble in the digestive juices within the small intestine, where they are absorbed into the blood. Once absorbed, they cannot be stored in the body, so they are either metabolized as required or excreted in the urine. [medical citation needed] Proteins consist of amino acids in different proportions. The most important aspect ...

  6. Aspartame - Wikipedia

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    Aspartic acid (aspartate) is one of the most common amino acids in the typical diet. As with methanol and phenylalanine, intake of aspartic acid from aspartame is less than would be expected from other dietary sources. [10] [52] At the 90th percentile of intake, aspartame provides only between 1% and 2% of the daily intake of aspartic acid. [10]

  7. Essential amino acid - Wikipedia

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    An essential amino acid, or indispensable amino acid, is an amino acid that cannot be synthesized from scratch by the organism fast enough to supply its demand, and must therefore come from the diet. Of the 21 amino acids common to all life forms, the nine amino acids humans cannot synthesize are valine , isoleucine , leucine , methionine ...

  8. Nutrition - Wikipedia

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    In nutrition, the diet of an organism is the sum of the foods it eats. [9] A healthy diet improves the physical and mental health of an organism. This requires ingestion and absorption of vitamins, minerals, essential amino acids from protein and essential fatty acids from fat-containing food.

  9. Human food - Wikipedia

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    They are an important source of protein and are considered complete proteins for human consumption, as (unlike plant proteins) they contain all the amino acids essential for the human body. [17] Some cultures and people do not consume meat or animal food products for cultural, dietary, health, ethical, or ideological reasons.