What are all of the vegetarian proteins?!
What are all of the vegetarian proteins?
Answers: While almost everything has protien in it here is a list that might help you gain some perspective.
http://www.vrg.org/nutrition/protein.htm... While just about every vegetarian food contains some protein, the soybean deserves special mention, for it contains all the essential amino acids and surpasses all other food plants in the amount of protein that it can deliver to the human system. In this regard, it is nearly equal to meat. The human body is able to digest 92 percent of the protein found in meat and 91 percent of that found in soybeans.7
Note: Some people are "soy intolerant" and would be better off with other sources (below) of protein. Be sure to check with your doctor about getting testing for soy allergies, especially if you don't feel good after eating soy products.
Other rich sources of non-animal protein include legumes, nuts, seeds, yeast, and freshwater algae. Although food yeasts ("nutritional yeast" and "brewer’s yeast") do not lend themselves to forming the center of one's diet, they are extremely nutritious additions to most menus (in soups, gravies, breads, casseroles, and dips). Most yeasts get about 50 percent of their calories from protein. All things that have/ had some type of life force-ish, has amino acids. So, that includes all your fruits and veggies, you whole grains (processed/ white are reaped of the quality that provides good sources of both amino acids and fiber), beans/ legumes, nuts, seeds, tofu, and dairy and eggs if you choose the lacto-ovo route.
To go even farther into whole grains: whole wheat pastas, whole wheat flours to makes baked stuff from scratch, brown rice, quinoa, spelt products, oatmeal, and that's all I can think of at this time, sorry! While soy beans are a great source of protein they also contain estrogen analogues.
Also, most soy products are very highly processed and are very frar from the original bean. the further foods are processed away from thier original form the hard it is for the body to get at the good stuff and get rid of the bad stuff.
Also, protein combining for all essential amino acids is a myth, as they can be stored in the liver and in a pool in the stomach.
There are many great plant based sources of protein that do not contain hormone analgoues and that can be easily sourced and consumed whole.
Nuts and Seeds are a great protein source, same with legumes and beans. chic peas and lentils are particularly good. Grains and to a lesser extent vegetables are also plant based protein sources.
I think variety in a diet is good for you and the other thing about varying protein sources is that most of them come with a lot of other great nutrients, like the iron in beans and the omegas in nuts and seeds. YYYYAAAAWWWWWNNNN.
Old boring question that is asked 10x per day.
Did you "Search for questions:" first?
Please try a search before asking a question. There is protein in just about every food you eat, just turn the box to the side and take a look. The average person only needs about 50 gr of protein per day. Most people take in way too much.
High protein foods include:
soy milk, tofu, nuts(Almonds, Cashews, Filberts, Hemp Seeds, Peanuts, Pumpkin seeds, Sesame seeds, Sunflower seeds, Walnuts (black)), seeds, legumes(Garbanzo beans, Kidney beans, Lentils, Lima beans, Navy beans, Soybeans, Split peas), grains(Barley, Brown rice, Buckwheat, Millet, Oatmeal, Rye, Wheat germ, Wheat, hard red, Wild rice), vegetables(Artichokes, Beets, Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Cucumbers, Eggplant, Green peas, Green pepper, Kale, Lettuce, Mushrooms, Mustard green, Onions, Potatoes, Spinach, Tomatoes, Turnip greens, Watercress, Yams, Zucchini), fruits(Apple, Banana, Cantaloupe, Grape, Grapefruit, Honeydew melon, Orange, Papaya, Peach, Pear, Pineapple, Strawberry) It's a LOT easier just to say that the only things that don't have any protein are pure carbohydrates (sugars and starches) and pure fats.
EVERYTHING else has protein in it! Potatoes have a lot of protein in them and even boring Iceberg lettuce has usable protein in it! If you eat enough calories on a varied vegetarian diet you'll never have ANY problem with missing out on protein or the amino acids that proteins are made of.
Your body doesn't even need as much protein as most folks think. The latest recommendations are that only 10% of your daily calories come from protein and even that number was raised after 'protein' industries (ranchers, milk and those protein powder companies<g>) complained about the 5-7% that the scientists wanted to recommend!
The person complaining about soy containing estrogen needs to go back to school! It's only in edamame that you find decent amounts of *healthful* phyto-stereols, ISP (Isolated Soy Protein) is largely devoid of phyto-sterols and the same idiots that started screaming about estrogen in soy are the same fools that say to avoid processed soy because it's undigestible and lacks Isoflavones (another name for phyto-sterols). In any event if estrogen really is a problem, that means that everyone should immediatly become a vegan since meat and milk are LOADED with real estrogen that would be much more harmful than something that's just similar to estrogen! The meat and dairy industry goofed when they started that scam to try to cut the sale of soy based foods!
And your body doesn't really use the protein you eat, it breaks the protein down into the amino acids that protein is made from. Processed soy protein is *easier* for your body to break down into amino acids, because compounds that block the digestion of the protein into amino acid were removed in the processing! In other words processed soy has *already* had the bad stuff removed!
Your body doesn't store protein or amino acids anywhere! The amino acids that result from digesting protein circulate in the blood for at least a few days, until the body either finds a use for them or turns the excess ones into calcium salts and gets rid of them through your kidneys.
BTW; 4 ounces of soy protein isolate (horrid processed, purified soy) also has over 90% of your RDA of iron!
As I said, he needs to go back to school<g>! The vegetarian society have some good information for you: It
http://www.vegsoc.org/info/protein.html...
If you go "up a link" to this page, they have a whole bunch of pages on nutrition, protein, iron, minerals etc...all very useful:
http://www.vegsoc.org/info Some vegetable proteins are Gluten,gliadin,Orizin,soy protein etc.But vegetable proteins are not qualitatively (in Essential Amino Acids -contents and ratio) good as Animal proteins in P.E.R and B.V.--I am a lacto-vegetarian. Could you clarify what you are asking? There are millions of plant proteins and millions of animal proteins. A protein is just am amino acid polymer.