I was playing around with the numbers in another comment, and concluded that someone like me, with a target consumption or 165 g of protein and 2800 calories, simply needed to average out to 5.9g of protein per 100 calories. Several whole plant foods are above this:
Peas: 6.4 g protein per 100 calories
Beans: 6.7 g per 100
Lentils: 7.8 g per 100
Mushrooms: 7.7 g per 100
Broccoli: 6.8 g per 100
And while looking at fermented cabbage in particular, that’s actually got some really good numbers, presumably because the microbes preferentially metabolize the sugars and carbs:
Kimchi: 7.4 g per 100
Sauerkraut: 4.8 g per 100
The more active one is, and the higher the calorie needs, the easier it is to hit the target of .78g protein per pound of bodyweight while still hitting overall caloric needs. It’s the restricted cutting diets that make it hardest.
Then again, easy for me to talk because I’m always hungry and have never had trouble eating enough. Even still, though, I rely heavily on dairy for my protein goals. It’s the easiest way to plan out macros.
Iirc the hard part is that not all protein is the same, and your body needs a variety to actually be able to use it which is near impossible to get solely from unprocessed plant based foods. So, modern chemistry to the rescue.
(This is what I remember from like an hour of research a few months back so correct me if I’m wrong)
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.
I was playing around with the numbers in another comment, and concluded that someone like me, with a target consumption or 165 g of protein and 2800 calories, simply needed to average out to 5.9g of protein per 100 calories. Several whole plant foods are above this:
And while looking at fermented cabbage in particular, that’s actually got some really good numbers, presumably because the microbes preferentially metabolize the sugars and carbs:
The more active one is, and the higher the calorie needs, the easier it is to hit the target of .78g protein per pound of bodyweight while still hitting overall caloric needs. It’s the restricted cutting diets that make it hardest.
Then again, easy for me to talk because I’m always hungry and have never had trouble eating enough. Even still, though, I rely heavily on dairy for my protein goals. It’s the easiest way to plan out macros.
You were this close to writing a perfectly readable and useful post and then you dunked it with the “.78g per POUND of body weight”.
I’m still proud of you for using metric almost the entire way, but come on! Can’t we just get rid of the rest of the useless system as well?
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I managed to get 3245 calories and only use 4 eggs and some autism-tier Vegan food, such as Quinoa.
Iirc the hard part is that not all protein is the same, and your body needs a variety to actually be able to use it which is near impossible to get solely from unprocessed plant based foods. So, modern chemistry to the rescue.
(This is what I remember from like an hour of research a few months back so correct me if I’m wrong)
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.
That’s a lot easier to do than what I remember reading about, so thanks for the clarification!