The purpose was to make soya beans more healthy for those for whom they are a staple food by correcting soya beans' natural deficiency in a chemical called methionine.
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Methionine
//mɛˈθaɪəˌniːn//
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35 translations across 33 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- مِيثِيُونِين noun (amino acid)
Bulgarian
1 entries- метионин noun (amino acid)
Catalan
1 entries- metionina noun (amino acid)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 甲硫氨酸 noun (amino acid)
- 蛋氨酸 noun (amino acid)
Czech
1 entries- methionin noun (amino acid)
Dutch
1 entries- methionine noun (amino acid)
Esperanto
1 entries- metionino noun (amino acid)
Finnish
1 entries- metioniini noun (amino acid)
French
1 entries- méthionine noun (amino acid)
German
1 entries- Methionin noun (amino acid)
Greek
1 entries- μεθιονίνη noun (amino acid)
Hebrew
1 entries- מתיונין noun (amino acid)
Hungarian
1 entries- metionin noun (amino acid)
Indonesian
1 entries- metionina noun (amino acid)
Italian
1 entries- metionina noun (amino acid)
Japanese
1 entries- メチオニン noun (amino acid)
Korean
1 entries- 메티오닌 noun (amino acid)
Latvian
1 entries- metionīns noun (amino acid)
Lithuanian
1 entries- metioninas noun (amino acid)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Methionin noun (amino acid)
Norwegian
1 entries- metionin noun (amino acid)
Occitan
1 entries- metionina noun (amino acid)
Persian
1 entries- متیونین noun (amino acid)
Polish
1 entries- metionina noun (amino acid)
Portuguese
1 entries- metionina noun (amino acid)
Romanian
1 entries- metionină noun (amino acid)
Russian
1 entries- метиони́н noun (amino acid)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- metionin noun (amino acid)
- метионин noun (amino acid)
Slovak
1 entries- metionín noun (amino acid)
Spanish
1 entries- metionina noun (amino acid)
Swedish
1 entries- metionin noun (amino acid)
Turkish
1 entries- metiyonin noun (amino acid)
Ukrainian
1 entries- метіонін noun (amino acid)
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