If you look purely at how much of the consumed protein ends up in your system, how much do animal and plant protein differ? And what is the best method for determining that? I have heard that there is no statistically significant difference when you use nitrogen balance as a method, is this a good method?
Please be clear im your answer it’s important to say which method is used for your claim, why that method is better and what the results.
So there’s a lot of murky bioavailability research which, in part, was determined by century old rodent studies eating raw pulses. Some involve pigs, some study nitrogen turnover, amino acid excretion, true ileal digestibility etc… It’s kind of a mess and very hard to research as it seems so scattered (if anyone has a comprehensive source I’d appreciate it very much). So I just skip to endpoint anabolism targets seeing as abject protein deficiency is ultra-rare in the west.
Note that leucine was consistently lower in the plant-based arm. Mechanistically we would infer that would limit muscle protein synthesis but here we are.
This question gets asked like every other week in here man, i suggest you do some reading on your own and weigh the benefits of plant based diets from professional nutritionists (not medical doctors because their training does not go in depth in nutrition at all). The obsession over protein is already wack based on multiple accounts of over consumption leading to cancer in the China Study. Regardless, every form of cancer linked to being ischemic and clots are entirely from animal products. That being said, plant based protein does not have any of the side effects of animal protein powder and is way easier to absorb by your body, hence why many many athletes continue to switch as the bro science of “whey is good” changes
I imagine you prefer data on biological availability and absorption, but you might find this visualization useful, with data from World Health Organization’s Food and Agriculture Organization: https://ourworldindata.org/global-land-for-agriculture
Globally, 63% of all protein intake comes from plant sources.
>Please be clear im your answer it’s important to say which method is used for your claim, why that method is better and what the results.
Then why don’t you just research it yourself? Most plant proteins are incomplete, whereas all animal proteins are complete. Much more protein per pound of meat than of plants. That’s all there is to it.