The phrase 'biological value' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the nutritional quality of a particular food or the ratio of essential amino acids in a food protein. For example, "Soy protein has a high biological value, making it a nutritious addition to any diet."
That quest sometimes prompts the use of mysterious ingredients of no known biological value.
Giovannetti S, Maggiore Q. a low nitrogen diet with protein of high biological value for severe chronic uraemia.
Alongside their mineral wealth, SMS deposits also have considerable biological value.
On hydrolysis zein yields only very small amounts of tryptophan or lysine, making it low in biological value.
Whey protein is a byproduct of the dairy industry that has high nutritional, functional and biological value.
Results showed that N retention (NR) and N biological value (NBV) were significantly increased from L1 to L4 (P < 0.05).
"[How] can we identify if a site is worth saving, can we put the High Speed 2 [railway] through that site or can we divert it through a neighbouring site with less biological value?
Forests filter the water we drink, for example, and birds and bees pollinate crops, both of which have substantial economic as well as biological value.
"If Prey Lang is deforested or heavily degraded, Cambodia will lose its largest lowland forest area with high biological value, putting at risk the existence of wildlife, including the Asian elephant, banteng and sambar," he said.
We investigated their involvement in learning the biological value of an odor cue, i.e. predicting reward or non-reward in a two-odor discrimination task.
Having two conservation options of apparently equal biological value, one would prefer the option whose value is relatively insensitive to errors in planning inputs.
