Erik Reuter wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 01:47:57PM -0500, Julia Thompson wrote:
>
> > How would you get 100-120 grams of protein per day on a vegetarian
> > diet? How much of what would you have to eat?
>
> Isn't it more complicated than that? I am under the impression that
> vegetarians have to keep track of specific varieties of proteins so that
> you get enough of all (20?) amino acids.
Well, yes. Grains generally have one set, legumes another set, and the
union of the two gives you all of the amino acids. (And I believe the
intersection is non-empty, but I don't know just how large it is.) But
if you've been an educated vegetarian for awhile, I bet that sort of
combining can be done almost without thinking about it. It's very easy
to get hold of a list of foods where something from column A and
something from column B when eaten together will give you complete
protein; in fact, one of the regular pregancy books I have, one with
very little on issues specific to a pregnancy with more than one baby,
has such a list to help out vegetarian moms-to-be. I'm just wondering
how much you'd need to eat of what to get 100-120 grams of protein each
day, and I think that Michael knows as much about this issue as anyone
else here.
Julia
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