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From the Volkskrant (newspaper): cheese takes more kg of food for the cows to produce per protein than chicken. For vegerarians cheese is an important source of protein.

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For vegerarians cheese is an important source of protein.

Sorry, but the vegetarian you talk of is doing it wrong.

My primary source of proteins is pulses. Especially the red kidney beans contain the same amount of protein as chicken, 24 gm out of 100 gm.

Reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_(food)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_bean#Red_or_kidney_beans

Interesting. Sainsbury's has chicken at 30g and kidney beans at 7g. You can search for nutritional information very easily here:

http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/groceries/index.jsp

Wolfram Alpha agrees, for what it's worth:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=kidney+bean+100g

I wouldn't trust Wikipedia to give correct nutritional information. I've noticed they've been incorrect about this before.

More generally, "I wouldn't trust Wikipedia to give correct $TOPIC information. I've noticed they've been incorrect about this before."

Articles like the one under discussion would be a helluva lot more persuasive if they linked to some resources for their stats. The claims about vegetarianism struck me as clutching at straws just to be contrarian.

To clarify what I meant, for what it's worth, I have personally experienced Wikipedia to be inaccurate with nutritional data, and that's something I've spent a deal of time looking at.

The two wikipedia pages list the USDA Nutrient Database as their source.

http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/

You can put "chicken" in the search field wade through the many choices, or you can put input the NDB numbers from my own searches, listed below.

The two wiki pages don't say exactly which variation of bean or chicken from the database they're using, so I went with these:

chicken breast raw, NDB # 05057, 20.85g protein/100g chicken

chicken breast stewed, NDB # 05061, 27.39g p/100g

kidney beans raw, NDB # 16027, 23.58g p/100g

kidney beans boiled, NDB # 16028, 8.67g p/100g

So, whatajoke's source for beans looks like it's for raw beans, and tome's looks like it's for cooked.

Does anyone eat raw kidney beans?

Nobody eats raw mature beans. They have several chemicals that will make you ill if you eat more than a tiny amount. You can eat the immature beans raw, that's what green beans/string beans are after all.

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