I hate tofu. Tried it once and it was horrible stuff....threw it out to my
dogs, and even they wouldn't eat it! LOL Oh well.....I was loving the soy
milk...however, read that people with thyroid probs should avoid it.
Minelle Paloff
----- Original Message -----
From: <mmiller@pcsia.com>
To: <sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu>
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2000 12:42 AM
Subject: Unbalanced Proteins was Re: soybeans deplete soil?
> >Also, soy protein is one of the most unbalanced (in terms of the
> >proportions of essential amino acids considered ideal for human
> >consumption) of any edible protein. In fact, it is barely edible (I
> >wouldn't eat it unless it was heavily processed as in tofu).
>
> I detect an opportunity to learn something here. What is the amino acid
> balance in the ideal human food? Below I have included a table of the
> amino acid content from the USDA's Compostion of Foods (Online Version at
> http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/cgi-bin/nut_search.pl) for soybeans, tofu and
> okara as well as an egg since I had heard it was suppose to be a very high
> quality protein. Anybody game to give us a protein nutrition 101 short
> course on this data?
> Mike Miller
>
> Tofu* Okara Soybeans** Egg ***
> NDB No: 16159 16130 16108 16109 01123
> Amino acids Raw Cooked
> (g) in (100g edible)
> Tryptophan 0.162 0.050 0.530 0.242 0.152
> Threonine 0.425 0.131 1.585 0.723 0.600
> Isoleucine 0.516 0.159 1.770 0.807 0.682
> Leucine 0.791 0.244 2.972 1.355 1.067
> Lysine 0.685 0.212 2.429 1.108 0.897
> Methionine 0.133 0.041 0.492 0.224 0.390
> Cystine 0.144 0.044 0.588 0.268 0.290
> Phenylalanine 0.506 0.157 1.905 0.869 0.664
> Tyrosine 0.348 0.108 1.380 0.630 0.510
> Valine 0.525 0.162 1.821 0.831 0.761
> Arginine 0.692 0.214 2.831 1.291 0.749
> Histidine 0.303 0.093 0.984 0.449 0.296
> Alanine 0.427 0.132 1.719 0.784 0.696
> Aspartic acid 1.150 0.355 4.589 2.093 1.255
> Glutamic acid 1.799 0.556 7.068 3.224 1.633
> Glycine 0.406 0.126 1.687 0.770 0.420
> Proline 0.561 0.173 2.135 0.974 0.498
> Serine 0.490 0.151 2.115 0.965 0.929
>
>
> * extra firm, prepared with nigari
> ** mature seeds
> *** chicken, whole, raw
>
>
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