• exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 days ago

    which is near impossible to get solely from unprocessed plant based foods.

    You’re remembering wrong. Your body needs the essential amino acids (histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine), and most plants don’t have all of them, but pretty much any combination of a grain (wheat, rice, oats, corn/maize) and a legume (beans, peas, lentils, chickpeas, green beans, peanuts) will have all of them.

    So yeah, you won’t get all of them from bread, and you won’t get all of them from peanut butter, but you will get all of them from a peanut butter sandwich. Or a bean burrito. Or rice and beans. Or rice and peas.

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      8 days ago

      That’s a lot easier to do than what I remember reading about, so thanks for the clarification!