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...