Plant protein🌱 is a popular trend that we’re seeing pop up everywhere – in our snacks, burgers 🍔, pastas 🍝, & beverages.
• These proteins are delicious and can be a great way to add variety into your diet, help ⬆️ your fiber intake, and eat more veggies. But, when it comes to protein, it’s a little more complicated. • Animal protein (meat, milk, whey, eggs, fish, etc.) provides all 9 essential amino acids - the building blocks of protein. This means they are a complete protein. • Most plant 🌱 proteins are considered incomplete because they do not provide your body with all of the essential amino acids. • Fear not! 💡 If you are following a plant-based diet you can still get all of the essential amino acids! ✨Just make sure that throughout the day you eat a variety of plant-protein sources. For example, beans (including chickpeas) provide protein, but are limited in the amino acid called Methionine. Luckily grains 🍞, nuts🌰 and seeds are high in this amino acid, so include some of these foods in your diet on the day you're eating beans or lentils and you'll provide your body with all the essential amino acids it needs. • @Banza is a plant-based pasta, made from chickpeas! A delicious way to eat more veggies and up your fiber intake. We absolutely love Banza in this house, especially for those quick meals you need to throw together when all of a sudden you’re starving and need to eat 5min ago. ⏰ Boil water, add pasta, drain, toss with a few hands-full of spinach and maybe some 🍅, throw on a can of spicy marinara sauce, and on a bold day I even add Italian sausage. YUM. 😋 #NoshItFoodFacts © Elieke Kearns, PhD, RD and Nosh.it Food Facts, 2021. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this content and/or photos without express and written permission from this site’s author is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Elieke Kearns, PhD, RD and Nosh.it Food Facts with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.
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