Abstract
Amino acid composition of interior structures of quail egg was determined chromatographically. Gas-liquid chromatographic analyses of egg samples were performed by injecting heptafluoroisobutyl ester derived directly from the hydrolysate onto a glass column packed with 3% SE-30 on Gas-chrom Q. Pretreatments of sample with dialysis and fat extraction were omitted. The result was comparable with that derived by a conventional ion exchanger method. Interior structures of quail egg contained more threonine and lysine, and less isoleucine than those of chicken egg.
