Grocery Industry Confronts a Problem: Only 10% of Americans Love Cooking (2017)

Re:Grocery Industry Confronts a Problem: Only 10% of America... by nradov on Monday December 09, 2019 @10:13PM (#21749263)

Chickpeas are tasty but the protein quality as measured by DIAAS score is significantly worse than red meat. In particular they are deficient in tryptophan.

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Re:Grocery Industry Confronts a Problem: Only 10% of America... by MaximumYComb on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @12:51AM (#21749985)

I don't think a majority of people are caring at all about the nutritional quality of their beef when they're eating a hamburger. I only see these arguments come into play as counters to vegan food. Everyone becomes a nutritional expert when vegan diets are mentioned.

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Re:Grocery Industry Confronts a Problem: Only 10% of America... by mrpopo on Monday December 09, 2019 @10:26PM (#21749323)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tryptophan#Recommended_dietary...

  Soybeans: 0.59g/100g of food
  Beef: 0.23g/100g of food
  Chickpeas: 0.19g/100g of food

Doesn't look like a vegetarian or vegan diet would cause any sort of tryptophan deficiency.

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Re:Grocery Industry Confronts a Problem: Only 10% of America... by david-gpu on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @08:34AM (#21752252)

According to your link, those are figures for raw (dried) beans. When water is added during cooking, concentrations will go down.

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Re:Grocery Industry Confronts a Problem: Only 10% of America... by danharaj on Monday December 09, 2019 @10:22PM (#21749303)

The ancient solution is to pair them with rice or wheat.

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Re:Grocery Industry Confronts a Problem: Only 10% of America... by awesomekid1234 on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @08:06AM (#21752059)

Isn’t tryptophan the thing that makes you sleepy.

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