680 DIETARY REFERENCE INTAKES

RDA for Adults

19 years and older 14 mg/kg/d of histidine
19 mg/kg/d of isoleucine
42 mg/kg/d of leucine
38 mg/kg/d of lysine
19 mg/kg/d of methionine + cysteine
33 mg/kg/d of phenylalanine + tyrosine
20 mg/kg/d of threonine
5 mg/kg/d of tryptophan
4 mg/kg/d of valine

Pregnancy
Method Used to Estimate the Average Requirement
There are essentially no data with regard to amino acid requirements
during pregnancy, so it is generally assumed that indispensable amino
acid needs increase in proportion to the increased protein needs during
pregnancy. Since the pregnancy EAR for total protein is 0.88 g/kg/d for
women, the amino acid EARs for nonpregnant women were multiplied by
1.33 and rounded to the nearest whole number.

Amino Acid EAR and RDA Summary, Pregnancy

EAR for Pregnancy

For all ages 15 mg/kg/d of histidine
20 mg/kg/d of isoleucine
45 mg/kg/d of leucine
41 mg/kg/d of lysine
20 mg/kg/d of methionine + cysteine
36 mg/kg/d of phenylalanine + tyrosine
21 mg/kg/d of threonine
5 mg/kg/d of tryptophan
25 mg/kg/d of valine

The RDA for amino acids for pregnancy is set by increasing the EAR by the
variation in protein derived for adults ages 19 years and older (1.24 × EAR)
and rounded to nearest whole number.