> It also had more arginine, an amino acid that children need to grow.

My kingdom for even a tiny bit of scientific literacy amongst people who are reporting on science.

Not only is this absurd ("children" need all amino acids to grow...as does anyone else), arginine isn’t even one of the essential amino acids. Your body makes it unless something is seriously wrong.

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someothherguyy an hour ago | parent [-]

i don't have a PhD like you, but aren't some amino acids essential in young mammals and conditionally essential in adult mammals?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S07533...

	▲	timr 20 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Not my area of expertise, but my understanding is that this is an extremely limited claim (i.e. unborn babies / neonatal supplementation, or children with genetic defects), and not something you can even remotely generalize to "children" as a whole. The way we teach this in biochem 101 is "arginine is conditionally essential", with the "conditional" being "periods of stress or sickness". In any case, I seriously doubt the author is talking about this, given the imprecision of the language. Also, eating this wheat specifically for arginine supplementation is goofy gym-science. Arginine is trivial to supplement. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03783... https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/...
	▲	dopa42365 15 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		https://www.biochemical-pathways.org/metabolic-pathways.pdf Your body is one hell of a lab.