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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. Es

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

tome 17y ago
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 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 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.
- jamesbritt 17y ago
  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.
  - tome 17y ago
    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.
nfnaaron 17y ago
The two wikipedia pages list the USDA Nutrient Database as their source. http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/ 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?
- billswift 17y ago
  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.

tome 17y ago

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 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 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.

jamesbritt 17y ago
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.
- tome 17y ago
  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.

nfnaaron 17y ago

The two wikipedia pages list the USDA Nutrient Database as their source. http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/ 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?

billswift 17y ago
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.