Which raw vegetables have the most protien?!
Which raw vegetables have the most protien?
I am seriously considering becoming a raw vegan because of evidence Celtic Tejas (name drop!) provided. But I wanted to know if I could get even close to enough protien...I know that dark green vegetables have protien...but is that it?
Additional Details2 days ago
I like broccoli....but I can't put cheese on it. Vegan's don't eat animal or animal by-products like cheese and eggs
Answers:
If you're going to go raw, you can not have beans, especially kidney beans, they don't even sprout! Now if you're going to germinate the beans, than you can eat them, that way they sprout and are not cooked. Sprouted beans are the best enzymes you can get for your body!
I'm going to look for a website about protein raw foods and I'll get back to you.
Where do raw and living foodist get their protein?
The WHO (World Health Organization) says humans need about 5% of their daily calories to come from protein to be healthy. The USDA puts this figure at 6.5%. On average, fruits have about 5% of their calories from protein. Vegetables have from 20-50% of their calories from protein. Sprouted seeds, beans, and grains contain from 10-25% of their calories from protein. So if you are eating any variety of living plant foods, you are getting more than adequate protein. Numerous scientific studies have shown the daily need for protein to be about 25-35 grams per day. So if you ate 2,000 calories per day, and ate raw plant foods that had an average of 10% of their calories from protein, you would get 200 calories worth of protein, or 50 grams. This is more than adequate to support optimal well-being. Other studies have shown that heat treating a protein (such as with cooking) makes about half of it unusable to the human body. So raw plant food protein is even a better source than cooked plant foods or animal foods. There is still a huge, foolish, misguided idea that plant protein is not "complete". This is based on studies done on rats in the 1940's. This false conclusion was drawn before we discovered the bodies protein recycling mechanism and its ability to "complete" any amino acid mix from our bodies amino acid pool, no matter what the amino acid composition of a meal consumed. This false idea is still perpetuated by the meat and dairy industries, in an attempt to influence people to continue consuming their truly health destroying products.