FoodBanter.com - View Single Post

cybercat

"Peter A" > wrote in message
...
> In article >, says...
>> >As far as I know, that is not true. No single vegetable source has
>> >complete protein. If you have legitimate information to the contrary,
>> >I'd like to know about it.
>>
>> Soy protein is complete, assuming you are using the World Health
>> Organization's definition of "complete". This is well known,
>> and efforts you may have seen to debunk this are rubbish.
>>
>> Quinoa is also complete, but just barely. There are probably many
>> other complete single vegetable proteins but they are not
>> high-protein vegetables and so this aspect is not nutritionally
>> significant.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>
> Interesting, thanks. I eat a good amount of soy, so I guess this is a
> good thing!
>

Except for the high levels of estrogen in soy ...