| abstract |
A novel crystalline salt of a basic L-amino acid with L-malic acid, particularly a neutral crystalline salt consisting of 2 moles of L-lysine, L-ornithine or L-arginine with 1 mole of L-malic acid, which have no bitter taste and can be administered by oral route as a nutritive supplement or as a medicine, and further contain no chloride ion and hence are useful for preparing an infusion solution with no undesirable side effect due to chloride ion. |