Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Would beans alone provide enough complete protein?
hypothetically, avoiding all question of other nutrients, micro and macro, would a person derive enough protein from eating only beans to survive? i realised beans are an incomplete protein, however this just seems to mean they are slightly deficient in one of the amino acids, but not completely devoid of. so if i were ingesting 100 grams of protein from beans a day, even if there was only enough of the limiting amino acid to create 50% of that into a complete protein, id still be getting 50 grams of protein. does this sound right, or am i overlooking something here?
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