10.22376/ijpbs.2019.10.1.p1-12 Volume 2 Issue 2 2011 (April - June) The two horticulturally important eggplant species with an African ancestry are the scarlet eggplant, lessThan i greaterThan Solanum aethiopicum lessThan /i greaterThan and lessThan i greaterThan gboma lessThan /i greaterThan eggplant, lessThan i greaterThan Solanum macrocarpon lessThan /i greaterThan L. The amino acid composition of the fruits of lessThan i greaterThan Solanum aethiopicum lessThan /i greaterThan and lessThan i greaterThan Solanum macrocarpon lessThan /i greaterThan was determined on dry weight basis. The total essential amino acid ranged from 288 g kg lessThan sup greaterThan -1 lessThan /sup greaterThan to 318 g kg lessThan sup greaterThan -1 lessThan /sup greaterThan crude protein or from 48.9 % to 50.3 % of the total amino acid. The two samples had high correlation coefficient (r lessThan sub greaterThan xy lessThan /sub greaterThan = 0.9876). The predicted protein efficiency ratio was 1.90 - 2.30, essential amino acid index range was 0.81-0.90 and the lysine amino acid score based on whole hen's egg was 0.54-0.61. The quality of protein was high. Among the 17 amino acids determined, the lessThan i greaterThan S. macrocarpon lessThan /i greaterThan was more concentrated in 15 (88.2 %) than the lessThan i greaterThan S. aethiopicum; lessThan /i greaterThan the other two were the acidic amino acids (Asp and Glu). E. I. Adeyeye And I. G. Adanlawo Two garden eggs and amino acid composition 39-51