Postprandial plasma amino acids
The 0–60 min iAUC for plasma amino acids are displayed
in Table 4. The postprandial responses for val,
leu, lys, serine (ser), alanine and arginine (arg) were significantly
higher following whey, casein and bovine milk
compared to the WWB. Furthermore, casein and whey
resulted in a significantly higher iAUC for arg and ser
compared to the human milk. The tyr response was significantly
higher after the whey protein and the bovine
milk, respectively, compared with the WWB and the
human milk. The whey and casein meals also elicited
significantly higher plasma iAUC for threonine than all
the other meals. There were no differences between the
human milk and the WWB in any of the analyzed amino
acids in postprandial plasma.