REH quoted the typical Wikipedia disinformation: > Lysine is the limiting amino acid (the essential amino acid found in the > smallest quantity in the particular foodstuff) in most cereal grains, but is > plentiful in most pulses (legumes). Consequently, meals that combine cereal > grains and legumes, such as the Indian dal with rice, Middle Eastern hummus, > ful medames, falafel with pita bread, the Mexican beans with rice or > tortilla have arisen to provide complete protein in diets that are, by > choice or by necessity, vegetarian. A food is considered to have sufficient > lysine if it has at least 51 mg of lysine per gram of protein (so that the > protein is 5.1% lysine).[8] > > Foods containing significant amounts of lysine include: ... > * Amaranth, grain, uncooked: 5.17% of the protein is lysine.[25]
These are misleading half-truths. What matters for virus susceptibility is - the Arginine content (7.3% -- by far the highest of all grains) and - the RATIO Arginine/Lysine (1.42 : 1) which are both too high in Amaranth. Combining with rice doesn't help, because rice has too little Lysine and an even worse ratio A/L (2.33). Red beans' Lysine is between Amaranth and rice, and the ratio (1.1) is still not low enough to compensate the excess Arginine from Amaranth. Fish comes close to that, but its ratio is only half as good as Gruyère cheese. And fish is not a crop. For a table of A/L ratios, see http://www.herpes.com/Nutrition.shtml . You'll find that the top foods are dairy products -- not Indian food items. > Amaranth was ten feet tall and > produced a larger seed than the current commercial stuff. My question referred to the quaLity difference. Quantity isn't quality. I thought "bigger is better" was the motto of the settlers, not the Natives... > A typical rule for most Indian diets is the importance > of mixing things so that there is balance. When the other foods are also unbalanced, you can't out-balance the excess Arginine in Amaranth. But I'm NOT suggesting that Indians were to blame for the settlers' deliberately infecting them with viruses. I'm just pointing out that Amaranth was not "the real genius crop". Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
