Chris. Have you found a good "vegetarian" *Gruyère cheese or is it made with rennet?
Darryl * **On 11/7/2010 3:53 PM, Christoph Reuss wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
