Amadeus Schmidt wrote:
> I just checked again and found legumes to be not very high in methionine.
> Lentils .077 kindney beans .130 -- half that of ordinary wheat.
> It must be something else. I know that each one, cereals and legumes are
> relative short in one of the amino acids. By accident exactely that amino
> acid low in the one is particularly high in the other.
Generally it is assumed that cereals will be high in methionine and
legumes high in lysine, sorry, I had that backwards!
> Together, therefore a mix of them results in a very high protein quality
> (better even as eggs and meats).
That is what the Vegans claim anyway...