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[–] [email protected] 90 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Stolen comment:

Obvious animal-industrial complex propaganda. Plant based proteins have way higher values than shown here (eg. boiled chickpeas have 15g, most tofus have 20g+ etc., just search any one of them up). The list also ignores staple, high-protein foods of this type (like beans and seeds), while including very low-protein foods that nobody thinks of as a source of protein (brocolli and avocado, really?), making the comparison seem less favorable.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Staging your meals around complete proteins is also completely unnecessary as long as your diet is even somewhat varied. Your body doesn’t need to get every amino acid at the same time to be able to make proteins.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Pretty sure it kinda does, maybe not the same meal but within a day or so.

Your body doesn't have a way to store incomplete proteins for later construction when the missing essential aminos arrive. Any aminos from proteins that can't be used to build needed proteins will be turned into glucose, and if you don't need the glucose turned into fat for energy storage.

Think of proteins like long words you have to spell by eating the right letters. If you don't have the letters to spell a word it can't be spelled. Your body has the ability to create some letters but some must be eaten. If you don't eat the needed letters your body will make do by eating itself (normal autophagy), which is fine on occasion for periods, but your body needs complete proteins.

Adding: You're right about a varied diet being easy enough for most to get the aminos they need. Many vegan/vegetarian dishes are oriented around complete proteins, eat these common dishes, the thinking about complete proteins was done for you long ago.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Just to check, did a quick search on usda.

Values aren't off that much, tho meat protein value seems to be overstated. It's still likely propaganda, since they're not calorie-wise protein which gives better outlook for balaced diet.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Both of your questions are in the picture.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Indeed. You ninja’d me before I could remove my question.