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Amino Acid Reference Patterns:

A Comparison of the Pattern of Human Milk with the Fao Pattern in Human Nutrition¹

Department of Pediatrics, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York

Seven premature infants were fed a synthetic diet in which the protein moiety was a mixture of 18 L-amino acids. The amino acids were provided in two ratios—that of human milk and that of the FAO pattern. There were no differences in the weight curves or the amount of nitrogen retained, using the two types of diets. The amino acid pattern of human milk would appear to be quite as satisfactory a standard of reference as the FAO pattern for assaying the nutritional adequacy of protein for the human species.

Manuscript received 18 July 1960.