Amino acid pattern similarity between foods in Japan.

Considerations about similarities and dissimilarities of amino acid patterns of 152 Japanese foods observed numericaly in the amino acid pattern similarity table were described. A table of foods in pattern similarity order and a table of mean values of pattern similarity between 16 food groups were prepared. Among 16 food groups, following 7 groups, namely, eggs, pulses, milks, fishes, shellfishes and cereals are considered to have definite amino acid pattern distribution, and following 8 groups, namely, potatoes, seeds and nuts, molluscs in sea, vegetables, fruits, fungi, sea weeds and others are considered to have difused amino acid pattern distribution.