HomeAmino Acids Leucine: food sources high in amino acid leucine.
Leucine: food sources high in amino acid leucine.
Leucine is one of the 8 essential amino acids that needs to be supplied from dietary sources.
Evidences from several studies, on rats, suggest that leucine is involved in protein synthesis in the skeletal muscles. Leucine can also inhibit protein degradation in skeletal muscle and liver. Leucine is an important component of hemoglobin.
Leucine rich food sources include legumes such as soy beans and cowpea and animal products such as beef and fish. Below is a list of select food sources that contain leucine and estimates of their leucine content. The foods are ordered high to low leucine content.
Leucine food sources
Leucine content (grams/ 100 gram food)
Soybeans, mature seeds, raw
2.97
lentils, raw
2.03
cowpea, catjang, mature seeds, raw
1.83
Beef, round, top round, separable lean and fat, trimmed to 1/8" fat, select, raw
1.76
Beef, top sirloin, separable lean only, trimmed to 1/8" fat, choice, raw
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