We’re told for muscle growth you need to eat enough protein, but how important is the type of protein?

Question

I’m aware of essential and non essential proteins, but pretty ignorant beyond that. For example, what proportion of your intake needs be essential protein?

In: Biology

Answer 1

It’s more about the amino acids (building blocks of proteins) than the specific proteins-

Wikipedia-

>An essential amino acid, or indispensable amino acid, is an amino acid that cannot be synthesized from scratch by the organism fast enough to supply its demand, and must therefore come from the diet.

All other amino acids, and the proteins built from them, our body can cobble together just fine on its own.

So, you generally should have these in your diet occasionally, but fortunately it’s easy to do- rice & beans covers them all, for example.