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You'd be hard-pressed to find a food that's completely missing a particular amino acid. Most "incomplete sources of protein" still will get you what you need i
by sn9 3y ago
You'd be hard-pressed to find a food that's completely missing a particular amino acid.
Most "incomplete sources of protein" still will get you what you need if you eat enough of it (in practical amounts, not impractical technically true amounts).
That said, if you're eating a sufficiently diverse diet, this shouldn't be a problem. And if you're going out of your way to get sufficient protein, tracking what you eat, etc., this is unlikely to be a problem.
Particularly if you're eating more than enough protein by any measure, lacking particular amino acids is a non-issue.
- jjtheblunt 3y ago> That said, if you're eating a sufficiently diverse diet, this shouldn't be a problem. that's the key...with a diverse diet in adequate quantity. a counterexample would be a diet of blueberries and a huge bucket of lysine, you'd be starving for other essential amino acids, because their "essential" adjective means our livers can not synthesize them...in this contrived example from blueberries and lysine.
- jjtheblunt 3y ago> You'd be hard-pressed to find a food that's completely missing a particular amino acid. lentils aren't complete, nor are grains, but the union of their amino acids spans those essential for humans, famously.