I’ve heard from lifters that not complete protein sources (bread,vegan protein powder, fruit) anything without the amino acids, don’t really get used by your body for muscle growth due to the lack of amino’s. So if I eat a sandwhich with a high protein bread and eggs, will my body absorb the protein better because the eggs have those aminos?
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Amino acids are what proteins are made off. There’s 20 different ones. Some of them our body can make out of other proteins, but some we cannot. These are called essential amino acids.
Humans wants to have a certain ratio of these essential amino acids for our functions, so foods that deviate from those ratios are considered “incomplete” proteins.
Incomplete protein sources are really not a concern at all, unless if you are trying to optimize muscle growth without eating excess protein. But the reality is that the average person is eating about twice as much protein as they actually need to function, meaning that even if those sources are “incomplete”, they still get plenty of each different amino acid.
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