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?
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Unless you have a very restricted diet (for health or palate reasons) then you don’t have to worry about it. By eating commonly available sources of protein (eggs, meat, chia, hemp etc) you will be eating complete proteins in sufficient quantities by default.
If you do have a restricted diet, i.e. a strict vegetarian and you dislike a lot of foods and you don’t have time to prepare food that blend enough protein types to make your overall intake ‘complete’..then you should be getting some multi-vitamins and some protein supplements to mix into smoothies.
Bottom line, if you focus on overall protein intake as a percentage of your diet calories, and eat a varied menu, then you don’t have to overthink it.
Edit: added in chia and hemp as examples, as many people had mentioned them in the thread.
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