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A pioneer in the amino acid industry for over 100 years, Ajinomoto offers a wide variety of oral, HCL H2O or anhydrous grade amino acids to meet all your needs. Ajinomoto's amino acids will allow you to improve the nutritional properties of your products or to create a multitude of tastes and flavors to enhance your products. Used in specialized nutrition, amino acids optimize energy expenditure before and during sports, accelerate recovery after sports, facilitate fat loss, improve nutritional values, etc. Used in food, they interact with foods to give a sweet, bitter, acid or umami note to your preparations.
Some examples of Amino Acids and their functions:
Function | Amino acid |
Sweet Taste | Glycine, L- alanine, L-thréonine, L- proline, L-serine, L-glutamine |
Bitter taste | L-Phenylalanine, L-tyrosine, L-arginine, L-leucine, L-isoleucine, L-valine, L-methionine, L-histidine |
Umami or acidic taste | Aspartic acid, Glutamic acid |
Meat Taste | L-cysteine (Maillard reaction) |
Boost nutrition etc... | L-glutamine, L-leucine, L-valine, L-isoleucine, L-arginine etc... |
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