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I tried to cook a book but it caught on fire. Also need to store freeze dried onions, chili powder, cumin, freeze dried garlic, cayenne, canned tomatos as well as chipotle peppers in adabo sauce. Some sort of keepable oil must be stored as well. I just like the feeling of security that if anything happens and in 3 days all the grocery stores will be empty, no problem. I'm a 'vegetation' anyway and beans and rice is a complete protein.
I'm a 'vegetation' anyway and beans and rice is a complete protein.
Which brings up a couple side issues:
What is the best ratio of beans to rice (nutritionally)?
And what do you think is the best kind of rice to store?
P.S.: at least one cook has told me that for rice, you need
a pound of salt for every 50 pounds of rice.
What ratio of beans and rice equals complete protein?
Robert Carter, BS Nutrition and Food Science & Dietetics, University of Florida (2016)
Answered Apr 19, 2017
To answer your question, there is no reason that ratio of proteins from different sources should affect absorption of protein from another source. So beans should not interfere with quinoa protein absorption, and vice versa. Your question brings up an interesting one though, whether or not we need to eat beans and legumes at the same time in order to consume a “complete protein.”
Based on the evidence the complete/incomplete protein thing is a myth. It is a myth in the sense that you don’t have to consume legumes and grains at the same time, to get a complete complement of the essential amino acids in the appropriate ratios. When we eat foods with proteins, we they are broken down by peptidase enzymes from our pancreas and are absorbed as individual amino acids, or short peptides[5]. We then store those amino acids as alpha-keto acids (through a process called deamination), until we need to reaminate them to use those amino acids to build our own proteins.
Because we have the ability to store amino acids, we can consume beans and grains separately with no problems. Based on our curent understanding of biochemistry, we can also freely eat them together with no problems.
and this question
If you eat 5 cups of cooked kidney beans (50g incomplete protein) with just 1 cup of cooked rice (5g incomplete protein) will you still end up eating 65g complete protein?
Beth Goldowitz, home cook with 50 years experience
Answered Feb 25
Combining proteins is old hat. We now know that all you need to do is eat yiur rice and beans in separate meals over he course of several days. Your body will take the essential amino acids found in each food, along wth those found in nuts, seeds and dark green vegetables, and manufacture all the various proteins it needs. If you’re hungry enough to eat 5 cups of beans at one sitting, more power to you, but you can save the rice and eat it tomorrow.
Another interesting thing to google is 'limiting amino acids'.
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