Tryptophan is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.
You can make 357 anagrams from letters in tryptophan (ahnopprtty).
1900-05; trypto- (irregular combining form representing Greek trīptós rubbed) + -phan(e)
So tryptophan at pretty big doses is a routine part of being a human on planet Earth.
Trypsin: solution of small shreds of fresh fibrin in neutral and alkaline media, and tryptophan test.
A test for the production of tryptophan was reported positive.
Probably not—the tryptophan story provides us with the perfect cover for the real reason we so love the holiday.
So why do we persist in observing the tryptophan and turkey and sleep version of the Thanksgiving?
To be sure, tryptophan as a white pill, not a slab of white meat, is used by some as a sleeping aid.
Spaghetti squash also contains specific nutrients that help convert the tryptophan in other foods you eat into serotonin.
The premise is this: turkey is chock-full of a soporific essential amino acid, tryptophan, one of the 22 essential amino acids.
Kent Sepkowitz explains why the ‘the tryptophan in turkey means sleep’ trope persists, despite multiple debunkings.
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