The climate impact and land use of cultivated meat: Evaluating agricultural feedstock production

Table 6. Nutrient supply by crops considered in linear optimization. Protein and oil plants Energy plants Nutrient yield with hydrolysis Soybean Lupine Field bean Pea Rapeseed Sunflower Maize Wheat Rye Triticale Barley Oats Potato Glucose from starch (Legume) 50% Glucose from starch (General) 100% Amino acid yield (General) 70% kg/ha kg/ha kg/ha kg/ha kg/ha kg/ha kg/ha kg/ha kg/ha kg/ha kg/ha kg/ha kg/ha Nutrients Saccharides Glucose 194.95 171.49 519.68 720.99 312.92 97.96 6866.65 4671.16 3110.05 2988.04 3628.13 1664.48 7293.76 Amino acids Essential Arginine 56.08 70.85 46.77 35.71 27.07 19.83 27.15 28.73 16.48 17.94 22.37 19.27 22.64 Cysteine 11.30 10.82 6.09 5.78 11.57 4.82 13.94 14.10 7.67 8.80 10.72 9.48 8.77 Histidine 20.90 14.37 12.19 10.53 11.57 6.86 16.14 13.06 6.90 8.12 10.72 6.12 10.23 Isoleucine 35.82 30.50 19.53 17.55 18.95 10.93 20.55 20.37 11.50 12.86 16.78 11.01 20.45 Lysine 47.76 32.08 30.82 30.55 28.30 11.12 16.88 16.71 13.03 13.20 17.24 12.23 29.95 Mehionin 11.09 5.12 3.40 4.13 10.09 6.30 11.74 9.40 5.37 5.75 7.92 5.20 8.77 Phenylalanin 38.81 25.58 20.07 19.82 17.72 11.68 27.15 27.16 14.56 14.55 22.37 14.37 24.10 Threonine 31.13 24.40 17.02 16.10 21.90 10.56 21.28 17.24 11.12 11.17 15.84 10.09 23.37 Tryptophan 9.81 4.53 3.94 3.72 5.91 3.71 3.67 6.79 3.07 4.40 5.59 3.67 5.84 Tyrosine 27.29 30.70 15.23 13.00 13.04 6.86 23.48 17.76 8.43 10.49 13.05 10.40 25.56 Valine 36.89 28.34

21.68 19.82 22.64 12.60 27.89 25.59 16.10 16.25 23.30 15.29 31.41 Non-essential Alanine 32.62 22.24 19.71 18.58 20.67 12.05 41.10 20.89 14.56 14.21 19.11 13.76 23.37 Aspartic acid 85.50 70.06 57.52 48.92 34.21 22.05 35.96 29.77 24.91 22.34 27.49 24.77 105.91 Glutamic acid 135.18 136.58 84.58 68.53 75.56 45.59 103.47 164.54 73.59 81.23 104.38 49.24 100.80 Glycine 33.05 26.17 20.61 18.58 22.64 15.75 21.28 23.51 14.56 14.89 18.64 14.68 20.45 Leucine 58.00 47.82 36.38 29.93 31.50 16.12 68.25 38.65 19.93 21.66 31.69 21.10 33.60 Proline 38.59 27.75 19.89 17.55 28.30 11.31 51.37 56.93 32.58 29.45 48.46 17.74 18.99 Serine 40.30 35.23 24.37 19.61 19.94 11.86 27.89 28.21 14.56 15.23 19.11 14.07 23.37 Glutamine + Glutamine Acid 135.18 136.58 84.58 68.53 75.56 45.59 103.47 164.54 73.59 81.23 104.38 49.24 100.80 Asparagine + Asparagine acid 85.50 70.06 57.52 48.92 34.21 22.05 35.96 29.77 24.91 22.34 27.49 24.77 105.91 Sum of amino acids 750.12 643.12 459.83 398.39 421.59 240.01 559.19 559.42 308.92 322.54 434.78 272.48 537.59 Sum of amino acids + glucose 945.06 814.62 979.51 1119.38 734.51 337.97 7425.83 5230.58 3418.97 3310.59 4062.90 1936.96 7831.35 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0316480.t006 PLOS ONE Evaluating agricultural feedstock for cultivated meat PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0316480 January 22, 2025 13 / 27