Re: Complete - Protein Calculations??


"RF" <RF@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Experts :-)

I am a vegetarian and would like to be able to make an accurate
assessment of how much of a
particular food it takes to complement another and make a complete
protein. For example, how much wheat it takes
to complement peanut butter or certain beans.

USDA seems to know nothing and many web sites have nonsense on this
issue. I have been able to get an idea of how the
system works from the books: Diet for a Small Planet and Laurel's
Kitchen.

It seems to me that, knowing the deficiencies in amino acids for every
food should make it possible to write a program
to do the calculations for matching pairs of foods.

Searches I have done have led me nowhere useful.

Has anyone any accurate information on this subject.

TIA

RF

And if usda doesn't, canada does
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/nutrition/fiche-nutri-data/index_e.html

I looked at oats and it had the amino breakdown for "rogers, large
flakes...."

Took maybe 5 minutes on google.

I was going to make a sarcastic comment about people saying usda knows
nothing when they can't use google.


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