I would like to preface the text bellow with the following: I’ve been plant based for 10 years eating animal products only on certain ocasions. I prioritize whole plant foods as much as I can.
With that said, the image is not correct. For example, Soy beans have around 18g of protein per 100g serving whereas a T bone steak has 27g of protein per 100g serving and ground beef has 25g of protein.
I’m all for promoting plant based foods since they have a lot more to offer than animal products, like more vitamins and minerals, fiber and phytonutrients. Spreading wrong information will do more harm than good in the end.
I also feel like protein per weight is a bit of a silly metric. I’ve got TVP here, which is basically soy beans without the oil and then dried. In its dried form, it actually lists 49g protein per 100g weight.
You’re supposed to soak it in vegetable broth, which makes it weigh 2-3 times as much, putting it between 16.3g and 24.5g protein per 100g. But like, yeah, all that weight is just water. It doesn’t add calories. If you eat it dry and then drink a glass of water, that’s the same end result.Well, and don’t get me started on humans not actually needing much protein at all. Extra protein just gets converted to calories.
Extra protein is not able to be absorbed by the gut at all and just gets shat out again.
No, if the body has no use for the amino acids directly, it turns them into glucose. See, for example: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3636610/
The process is called Gluconeogenesis.
Can you get soy in large quantities cheaply? Genuine question, my local markets don’t seem to have a lot of soy anything around that isn’t specialty and expensive.
I don’t know since I personally don’t use soy beans a lot, I prefer lentils and other beans (black beans, brown beans, chickpeas, etc).
You might be able to order TVP from a bulk trader or even from across the globe. The stuff is very lightweight and doesn’t go bad for many months (I’d wager even for many years, but I haven’t tried 🙃).
Me drinking soy sauce until I’m blind and then yelling at the doctor to run the blood tests again
I’m dying. Hilarious mate, thanks for that!
Share your cheer with someone near! (Emotionally or physically, don’t betray your social barriers) Hope you have a wonderful day
But where will you get your cholesterol???
You can have mine. I have plenty
Any comparative nutritional infographic should at least start by including the three primary macronutrients: carbohydrates, protein, fat. All three are necessary nutrients.
Soy gives me the wind big time.
