Animal protein intake is inversely associated with mortality in older adults

Re:Animal protein intake is inversely associated with mortal... by wenc on Thursday December 16, 2021 @09:10PM (#29586890)

Protein (well amino acids) is used by the body to repair tissue. Amino acids are more available in animal proteins than in plants. There are scores [1] for ranking protein availability, and the top ones are animal protein (the humble egg ranks very high).

You can get the same proteins from plant sources but you have to eat a lot more of it (which can be difficult to do -- not everyone can eat a lot even if it's fun foods) and also supplement the limiting amino acids. I believe most diets fall short of the recommended amount.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_quality#Protein_source...

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Re:Animal protein intake is inversely associated with mortal... by bootlooped on Thursday December 16, 2021 @10:27PM (#29587331)

A long long time ago I read a forum post that evaluated mixing various types of plant based protein powders at various ratios to achieve a high PDCAAS score. The only things I can recall are that a 70/30 mix of pea protein and rice protein gave you above a 1.0 score, and mixing hemp protein in with anything made the score worse. You can conveniently buy cheap pea protein powder and rice protein powder in 7 and 3 lb jugs.

This was specifically about protein powder, but I think you could achieve similar results in your diet by combining different plant based foods in a meal.

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Re:Animal protein intake is inversely associated with mortal... by wenc on Thursday December 16, 2021 @10:49PM (#29587486)

You can definitely get the right proportions by mixing, though you might have to eat (in this case drink) a lot more plant protein (in terms of volume) to get the comparable amount in g vis-a-vis animal protein.

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