From: Damien Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 21 2003 - 11:14:57 MDT
On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 12:06:01PM -0400, Harvey Newstrom wrote:
> Turkey is not 94% protein. It is 66.3% water, 29.2% protein, and 3.2% fat.
gts amended his claim to be talking about food with the water discounted. By
your numbers the dry mass is 90% protein. Not 94%, but pretty high.
> you count seaweed and soybeans. Seaweed, tofu, wheat gluten, soybeans,
> nuts, and seeds. These easily beat most animal sources for protein.
I thought this was odd, since soybeans are fatty for beans; shouldn't they
have a lower protein content? And so it seems you're comparing various forms
of dry or roasted soybeans with *boiled* (i.e. soaked and hydrated) other
beans.
> 100 grams of: contains this much protein:
> ------------- ------------------
> dry roasted soybean nuts 39.5g
> boiled wing beans 10.6g
> boiled white beans 9.7g
> boiled lentils 9g
> boiled chickpeas 8.8g
> steamed sprouted soybeans 8.5g
See, the wet soybeans don't look so dense. I don't know if there's some
reason soybeans and peanuts are eaten dry more often than other beans.
Anyway, if you're going to be comparing foods, agree on your baselines. Dry
mass, % of calories, % of actual bulk you'd be eating, or what.
-xx- Damien X-)
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