> I cook all of my food, and it’s all fresh produce, spices, evoo, quinoa, and oats.
Are you on low protein diet ?
Are you on low protein diet ?
My protein comes from beans, quinoa, oats, vegetables, and nutritional yeast.
quinoa - 8g/cup , 8 gm
beans - That is equal to approximately ½ cup per day. Thats about 20g protein
oats - 6 gm protien
So thats about 44g/day.
Are you eating like ~ 3 cups of beans/day ( ~120gm )? That would be around 350gm of carbs which sounds really excessive to me.
All the things in your diet are listed as "examples of not complete proteins" on that page. not quite sure what that means.
Very apropos for an article that discusses ultra-processed foods in the context of a plant-based diet.
As for whey protein isolate, isn't it also considered an ultra-processed substance as well?
1. Soak in water
2. Filter and keep what’s left.
Complete proteins contain all nine essential amino acids in consistent amounts. Most of those are stuff like fish, poultry and dairy, whereas grains or vegetables usually don't contain all the needed amino acids.
So if you're on a veg diet, mixing and matching those protein sources is recommended to get you all the amino acids your body needs.
Also, per serving: lentils (?g), peas (5g), peanut butter (8g), flax meal (3g), hemp hearts (10g); and more I’m sure I’m missing.
That said, I could easily eat 3 cups of beans per day.
As to “complete proteins” mixing quinoa and oats, which each have some of the necessary amino acids, makes their combination a source for complete proteins.