Know your Amino Acids fact sheet:
| Full name | Glutamic acid |
| 3 letter name | Glu |
| 1 letter name | E |
| What you see: | What a biochemist sees: |
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| Speciality | – |
| Sources (animal) | meat, poultry, fish, eggs, dairy products |
| Sources (plant) | Some protein-rich plant foods |
| Chemical formula | C5H9NO4 |
| Essential | – |
| Non-essential | X |
| Hydrophobic | – |
| Hydrophilic (neutral) | – |
| (positive) | – |
| (negative) | X |