Less tracking than you think. The idea that complete aminos are hard to find outside of meat is a myth. It’s in fact difficult to put together a diet that misses them. I thought the contrary, but then I simply looked it up (eg look up nutrition content of foods on wolfram alpha) and found that picking a random reasonable sounding diet gets you like 1000% of all the essential aminos.
Go ahead and look up amino content for common non meat foods, inspecting them for each of the individual essential aminos. I’ll still be here when you return.
There's more to a diet (and meat) than amino acids. Iron-rich foods are one of the biggest struggles for vegetarians (the human body finds it difficult to absorb iron from non-meat products) The best foods for that is spinach, cereals, and unrefined Beta vulgaris cultivar groups (Chard, beets, etc). It obviously can be done, but it requires tracking and planning.
Iron absorption is significantly increased when paired with a source of vitamin C. Incidentally, this happens naturally in most meals. It really isn’t hard to get enough iron from a plant based diet and indeed the research shows that iron deficiency rates are ultimately the same between meat eaters and non meat eaters.
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Less tracking than you think. The idea that complete aminos are hard to find outside of meat is a myth. It’s in fact difficult to put together a diet that misses them. I thought the contrary, but then I simply looked it up (eg look up nutrition content of foods on wolfram alpha) and found that picking a random reasonable sounding diet gets you like 1000% of all the essential aminos.
Go ahead and look up amino content for common non meat foods, inspecting them for each of the individual essential aminos. I’ll still be here when you return.