Can I bulk on legumes?

unesemainedecruaute
unesemainedecruaute Posts: 54 Member
in Food and Nutrition
So I've been focusing a lot on studying and had to reduce my working time. Ergo, less money meant cutting some luxuries, as having a girlfriend or buying protein powder (lol but true). I've also reduced the amount of meat to "sporadically".

In the meantime, I've become a professional onto the relation food/protein/cost, I've even have an excel (lol but true 2), which lead me to consume soy, lentils, and so on, as if there were no tomorrow.

I do am aware that protein isn't the same on different sources, but I don't know why or what changes, so my question is:

What's the difference, as far as PROTEIN and EFFECTS goes, between consuming it from different sources (e.g. legumes, diary or meat)?

Thanks.

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  • Ainar
    Ainar Posts: 858 Member
    There are 9 essential amino-acids. Some proteins have them all, such as protein from eggs and meat I think, and some does not. But I think legumes does not. So you would need to ate also some rice for example what does have it. So legumes + rice = complete protein as far as I remember.
    Doesn't really matter tho unless you wanna go on as low protein as possible, for example 0.5g per pound of lean body mass or lower. If you would want just as good gains with so low protein as if you would get on 1g per pound then you would need to pedantically count every milligram of every amino-acid. But does not matter if you are on general 1g per pound rule cos you will get all you need anyways.
    I'm not too pro about this just telling you what I read in some books a while ago. I personally don't count those. I am a vegan and don't ate too much protein, just min 1g per pound and I also I get them from different sources not ONLY form legumes, legumes, legumes, legumes all day every day so it doesn't matter.
  • mlyn0812
    mlyn0812 Posts: 31
    Different protein sources have different biological values which is the percentage of a given nutrient that is able to be utilized by the body. Eggs and whey score the highest (100), followed by chicken (79), fish and beef and on down to the vegan sources like nuts and beans (49). So I would say as a vegan your success wouldn't be that great unless you relied on a lot of supplementation, but as a vegetarian there would be no problem because you can still eat eggs and dairy and those score the highest in BV, higher even then meat.
  • unesemainedecruaute
    unesemainedecruaute Posts: 54 Member
    Thank you both guys, with the info you gave me I've started to search a little, and I think I might be able to really improve my nutrition :)

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