What is the nutritional value of eating your own finger or toe nails, calcium, fibre?!
Oxygen 62.81
Carbon 19.37
Hydrogen 9.31
Nitrogen 5.14
Sulfur 0.64
Phosphorus 0.63
Other 2.10
Finger and toenails are made of proteins called keratin. It consists of glycine. Glycine (abbreviated as Gly or G)[1] is the organic compound with the formula HO2CCH2NH2. It is one of the 20 amino acids commonly found in proteins, and whose "side group" is a single hydrogen atom; also the next smallest, alanine, with a small and noncharged methyl group.
I would suggest that the nutritional value is similar to hard cheese, a very popular protein source.
Answers: Element Percentage of Human Body
Oxygen 62.81
Carbon 19.37
Hydrogen 9.31
Nitrogen 5.14
Sulfur 0.64
Phosphorus 0.63
Other 2.10
Finger and toenails are made of proteins called keratin. It consists of glycine. Glycine (abbreviated as Gly or G)[1] is the organic compound with the formula HO2CCH2NH2. It is one of the 20 amino acids commonly found in proteins, and whose "side group" is a single hydrogen atom; also the next smallest, alanine, with a small and noncharged methyl group.
I would suggest that the nutritional value is similar to hard cheese, a very popular protein source.