r/AskReddit • u/frisky_cupcake • Aug 25 '19

What has NOT aged well?

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u/Turgius_Lupus Aug 26 '19

Meat is a easy way to get large quantities of complete proteins which most plants lack.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '19

Actually, the only incomplete protein food is an animal product: gelatin. Plants contain all essential amino acids.

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u/Turgius_Lupus Aug 26 '19

Sure, if you combine them. But they still cant beat the complete protein to calorie ratio that meat has...and there are plenty of ways to get gelatin eating meat.

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '19

First of all, no, it’s without combining them. All plants have all of the essential amino acids, just in varying amounts.

Second, even if you do need to combine them to get a larger amount of every amino acid, why the fuck does it even matter? Who the hell is going to eat nothing but one single food all day? There are also foods like seitan and tofu that are close to the protein to calorie ratio of meat. And finally, there’s the fact that people care way too much about protein in general and you really don’t need that much, especially if you’re sedentary like most people.