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Thomas Bridgeland <[log in to unmask]>
Thu, 6 Feb 2003 08:10:46 +0900
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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...

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