/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>6815398
>Quinoa is nutritionally more beneficial than Bulgur, quinoa has about 13g protein per 100g and remember 10 essential amino acids
As several people have pointed out in this thread, obsession with protein quantities and amino acid balance are misplaced concerns with any sort of remotely balanced diet, vegan or not. Bulgur is admittedly slightly lower in lysine, but it's still got plenty even if you ate no other source of protein. There is no reason you need to get all amino acids from a single ingredient, except in hypothetical "if you had to eat a single ingredient for the rest of your life" scenarios. And if you compare something like oats at $1/pound to quinoa at $8/pound, the amino acid profile is darned near the same. (Pic related). Dupes get suckered in by quinoa's "superfood" marketing - the claims aren't false, they're just irrelevant. Amino acid deficiencies just aren't a thing outside of impoverished developing countries.