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.
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.