LEUCINE: In the CRC Handbook of Phytochemical Constituents, sunflower

tops the charts at 3.6% leucine, followed by watercress at 3.3, blackbeans,

jute and soy at 3.2, taro leaves and winged beans at 2.7, sheat and spinach
at 2.6, velvetbean at 2.5, tepary at 2.4, and butternut, fababeans, lentil, pea,
pigweed, and sesame, at 2.3, and lablab, lambsquarter, and pumpkin seed at
2.2%, on a calculated dry weight basis, well rounded. Zello et al (1995)
suggest a requirement of 14 mg/kg/day leucine for adults, based on nitrogenbalance studies, but they maintain that such estimates are too low, by ca
1/2.