Do sources of incomplete protein, such as peanuts, almonds, etc., increase nitrogen balance?
Anyone?
Since nobody’s helping you out on this, I’ll tell you the way I see it. Bear in mind I have no scientific background, only my own experience…
I don’t count these sources of protein toward a daily total. If you’re a vegetarian/vegan, for example, there are methods of combining incomplete proteins to make whole proteins, but the combination from, say, rice and beans, a classic example, cannot hold a candle to beef or egg protein. How effective these incomplete proteins are for building muscle is really only academic anyway; for all intents and practical purposes, you’d do well not to count those grams of protein toward your daily total. Which isn’t to say almonds aren’t a great food…keep eatin 'em!
Best of luck
Ramo
An incomplete protein is just a bit low in some of the essential aminoacids. If you combine two or three of these incomplete proteinsources to get a mix with all the essential aminoacids in the right amounts ei. a balanced protein, that protein is just as good as any other balanced protein, steak, eggs or whatever. However, you have to eat a lot of rice and beans to get the same amount of protein as you would get from a steak!
do incomplete proteins increase nitrogen balance? that’s a yes and no answer depending on the situation. if you’re body is only taking certain protein sources that bias you towards only ingesting certain amino acids, and you have NO other protein sources to make up the difference, then no. if your incomplete protein sources are part of a wider range of protein in your diet, then your intake and your rates of synthesis will depend on how much overall protein you eat, when you eat it, and what you eat it with. if you are eating a LOT of these protein sources and you are able to adequately cover the 8 essential amino acids in this diet, then most likely you will have a positive nitrogen balance depending on your rates of synthesis. however, if you are lacking in any essential amino acid, you will probably have a neutral or (most likely) negative nitrogen balance due to the inability to have a given essential amino acid available.
you should vary your protein sources anyway. it will help with diet variety and allow you to reach your target daily protein intake.
Interesting… So what would happen to extra incomplete protein if it can not be used as protein by the body? It seems that the only place left for it to go is as carb or fat storage…at least it seems that way beased on the general factors involved. Would this excess protein bocome a caloric ‘concern’ with chronically eating incomplete protein?