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Nutritional classification of amino acids

Essential

• I (isoleucine) left (leucine) home (histidine*) to
(tryptophan) make (methionine) visit (valine)
through (threonine) Libya (lysine), Philippine
(phenyl alanine), Argentine (arginine*)

Semi-essential

• Arginine
• Histidine

Non-essential

• Alanine, aspartate, glutamate, glutamine, asparagine
glycine, cysteine, serine, proline, tyrosine