Complimentary Foods for Complete Protein?

[SubjectiveIllusion]

Anyone know any?

 

[spatts]

Your body will make protein into complete protein IN your body.

 

[SubjectiveIllusion]

I'm talking combos like rice & beans, peanut butter on brown bread etc..

Like alone, peanut butter is not a complete protein. Either is brown bread. Together they are. These are types of combos I'm looking for.

 

[The Red Dragon]

milk and eggs
I think meat is a complete amino acid set

Theres 20 amino acids, 8 essential. Those 8 essential amino acids can't be manufactured by your body but must be consumed from external sources. Those 8 amino acids can assemble the other 12. Without those 8 your body will break down muscle to get those essential amino acids.

 

[The Red Dragon]

The numbers vary. Some sources will report 10 EAA and 22 amino acids...I'm guessing there's some kind of geometric isomerism

 

[spatts]

I'm talking combos like rice & beans, peanut butter on brown bread etc..

Like alone, peanut butter is not a complete protein. Either is brown bread. Together they are. These are types of combos I'm looking for.

...and I'm talking like, your body does that for you.

...and yes, TRD, eggs are a wealth of aminos. It's the only thing you can eat that's an entire animal.

 

[The Red Dragon]

...Righto

 

[Deleted member 33117]

SI, ok, yes those things in combination are complete protiens, but they are still pretty low quality complete protiens. Honestly, you will not build an impressive body unless you get a very large % of yoru protien from animal sources. The entire vegetarian craze was not founded on good science, but rather on theory and speculatoin, and is beginning to be proven incorrect. The idea was to get away from fat and cholesterol. In all honesty, such diets are unhealthy, and definately not condusive to building a well developed musculature. Try combining your rice with chicken or your beans with steak. Both of those combos provide a higher quality protien than the beans and rice combo.
spatts, yes eggs are an extremely high quality protien source, but its not because its an entire animal. Whole eggs are a great additon to any mass building diet. The yoke is actually more valuble in this regard. It contains half the protien, 90% of the nutrients, all of the fat, and that ever so important testosterone boosting cholesterol (alot of people don't seem to understand this point).

 

[spatts]

I'm aware of that, and I'm not sure how that applies to anything, or contradicts anything, that I said.

 

[SubjectiveIllusion]

I'm aware of that, and I'm not sure how that applies to anything, or contradicts anything, that I said.

It adds to it.


When I was talking about foods that compliment each other, I was talking about vegetarian foods. I thought you guys would know what I meant. I guess I didn't word it well enough.

Thank you guys for your comments..

 

[spatts]

Gotcha.

 

[Deleted member 33117]

Spatts, right, it adds to it. The only thing I disagree with is the part about the complete animal. It isn't relavant. Eggs are a great source of protien for those trying to gain lbm just as you said, but not just because of their protein value. Just wanted people to understand their value extends beyond the high quality protien they provide.

 

[THE HUMUNGUS]

Milk Proteins complete Protein in Beans.

 

[spatts]

Geez people, I wasn't talking just about aminos or protein or anything, just throwing out a little piece of trivia. "Isn't relevant?" Let's get a show of hands: Who knew that before I said it? It's just an interesting fact.

You wanna talk about irrelevant and pointless? Let's look at the thread topic.

 

[Deleted member 33117]

Geez people, I wasn't talking just about aminos or protein or anything, just throwing out a little piece of trivia. "Isn't relevant?" Let's get a show of hands: Who knew that before I said it? It's just an interesting fact.

You wanna talk about irrelevant and pointless? Let's look at the thread topic.

Ok, good point. LoL

 

[Deleted member 33117]

It adds to it.


When I was talking about foods that compliment each other, I was talking about vegetarian foods. I thought you guys would know what I meant. I guess I didn't word it well enough.

Thank you guys for your comments..

Actually, I knew what you ment, and addressed that issue in my post. Read it again. I'm basically pointing out the ineffectiveness of combining vegetarian foods in an effort to compensate for the lack of complete protiens, for vegetarian bodybuilders. The only successful vegetarian bodybuilders that I'm aware of were evo-lacto vegetarians. Meaning they consumed animal byproducts in the form of eggs & dairy products. Which contain the "evil" fats and cholesterol that many vegetarians seek to avoid, which also happen to be quite anabolic. They are also sources of very high quality protien. Combining incomplete protiens never yields high quality complete protiens. Its a weak substitute for the real thing.

 

[SubjectiveIllusion]

I guess I'll just stick to what I'm doing now,.. chicken, eggs, fish and throw in the odd grain product and beans every now and then for variety.. Seems sensible.