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Farsala on 18 April 2018
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palou said:
Farsala said:

Heh starting from the bottom was a mistake because those were the non essential proteins or conditionally essential.

The essential proteins are more important, because the body can't naturally make it. If you could list easily accessible foods for the essentials, then maybe it would be possible.

Soybeans are great and have all essential amino acids in tofu and stuff but they are not all equal proteins. For example they are low in Methionine and Cystine which, unless you eat excessive amounts, you won't get it from soybeans alone. Quinoa is much worse on protein side, so I don't really consider it so viable. Chia same story as Soybeans. Buckwheat same as Quinoa. So while possible, is not feasible in my opinion.

T bone steak, chicken, turkey heck even fish only needs a small serving to solve all your protein needs for an average person. The problem is compounded for people with a larger need for protein.

Looking it up, apparently certain essentials are considered complementary, apparently, so only containing one or the other is sufficient to let it be considered "complementary."

Those 2 can be found in other food without too much of a stretch, however, methionine in nuts/grasses (wheat, etc...) and cystine in the cabbage family.

 

As stated, it's of course much easier for a vegetarian to fill these dietary needs (eggs have just about everything and then some...), so that's probably what should be recommended, from a nutritional perspective.

Yes that is why I had them together. (See bold)

I don't really consider eggs vegetarian as it is honorary meat imo.. but whatever. Eggs and meat are the common protein foods.

Red cabbage doesn't really have any protein. 1 serving of T bone steak, eggs (300 calories) or other meats solve all methionine or cystine needs for the average person. But Red Cabbage you would need to eat 5 entire red cabbages or 1300 calories which nobody does , soybeans much better choice but still not great.

On the wiki for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methionine

Brazil nuts are high, but who really has any of them? I genuinely would love to add them to my diet and replace some of my meat but that would be quite frankly impossible. The others indeed also have some, just not much as usual similar to the case with soybeans.