peanuts and egg protein

[agingtechie]

I just read something about eating peanuts to increase the usable protein in eggs as the peanuts act as a protein completer. It sounds plausible but no where can I find any information on how many peanuts per egg to work this into my diet. Say I have three egg whites for breakfast, will a small handful of peanuts after lunch do the trick? Or do I need to finish one of those 70 gram snack packs of peanuts?

[theboss]

i would think it would be best to have the peanuts at the same time as the eggs if what you are saying is true about them being a protein completer....too much time in between if you wait until lunch.

i say use 1 whole egg with the egg whites for breakfast.

[nisser]

I just read something about eating peanuts to increase the usable protein in eggs as the peanuts act as a protein completer. It sounds plausible but no where can I find any information on how many peanuts per egg to work this into my diet. Say I have three egg whites for breakfast, will a small handful of peanuts after lunch do the trick? Or do I need to finish one of those 70 gram snack packs of peanuts?

What's a protein completer? Do the peanuts cook the eggs for you? Serve the ketchup on the side?

Why do people believe the most dumb things?

[rickyboy36]

Its called completing imcomplete proteins.Imcomplete proteins are grains, legumes, nuts, seeds, and other vegetables

By adding small amounts of animal protein or meat, eggs, milk, or cheese(these are all complete proteins) to any of the groups, you create a complete protein.So your peanuts will become complete by adding in what i mentioned above.It doesnt have to be in the same meal and it doesnt have to be a big serving.Amino acids float around in a "pool" for about 12 hours before being either pissed out,or transformed into fuel or fat.Obviosuly the sooner you mix them together..the better.But you still have 12 hours to do so

heres a link that explains it a bit: http://www.bodyforlife2.com/incompletprotein.htm

[nisser]

I was being facetious. I know what a complete protein source is.

I find it incredibly odd that the OP would use the word and not be aware that eggs are one of the best known complete sources of protein.

[agingtechie]

I was being facetious. I know what a complete protein source is.

I find it incredibly odd that the OP would use the word and not be aware that eggs are one of the best known complete sources of protein.

Okay nice reply. But, I already know that anything with a BV score better then 70 is considered a complete protein. As I recall; on the bioavailability scale eggs are at 100 because eggs were used as the starting point for the scale. The scale was created before whey was in use. (I think I read that some place here on CBB.)

But whey protein is much higher is around 105 on the bioavailability scale. So what happens is that the bioavailability of the egg protein increases with the addition of the legumes (in this case peanuts) to a lot higher number approaching the effectiveness of whey protien.

What I don't know is what size serving of peanuts is required to do this. And yes the peanuts should be eaten with in 12 hours or so for the biochemistry magic to happen. I guess that adding a piece of toast with peanut butter should do it.

But now that I am looking into it I see that the bioavailability charts for chicken, beef, fish and, pork show that all of these meats need to be combined with protein completers to bring the score up from the 70-80 ranges.

[tiramisu]

This is silly. Eggs don't need any help being bio-available and certainly not from peanut butter. There are definitely better things to obsesss over. If you are eating 1-1.5 grams of protein per pound of body weight per day the detail you are working out just doesn't matter whether it is true or not.

If you are eating 1-1.5 grams of protein, a similar amount of complex carbs and the rest in good fat with your calories being within 500 calories of maintenance depending on your goals then you probably need to spend less time thinking about your diet.

Yes some C,D,E a multi and some fish oil will help and again if you are already taking them then you've reached a point in your diet where it's quite likely that you aren't going to see any change whatsoever in performance, how you feel, or look from changing your diet.. (except to maybe make it worse).

If you are in contest prep mode diet gets wierd but otherwise 99.9% just isn't that complex and after you get it mostly right the hardest part really is just day over day consistency.

The same can be said of training and aas. It is definitely fun to debate the edge of nutrition, training, and drugs but in terms of actual effect on your body the net change in effect in optimizing the last couple of percent is essentially zero.

[Aaron_37]

This is silly. Eggs don't need any help being bio-available and certainly not from peanut butter. There are definitely better things to obsesss over. If you are eating 1-1.5 grams of protein per pound of body weight per day the detail you are working out just doesn't matter whether it is true or not.

If you are eating 1-1.5 grams of protein, a similar amount of complex carbs and the rest in good fat with your calories being within 500 calories of maintenance depending on your goals then you probably need to spend less time thinking about your diet.

Yes some C,D,E a multi and some fish oil will help and again if you are already taking them then you've reached a point in your diet where it's quite likely that you aren't going to see any change whatsoever in performance, how you feel, or look from changing your diet.. (except to maybe make it worse).

If you are in contest prep mode diet gets wierd but otherwise 99.9% just isn't that complex and after you get it mostly right the hardest part really is just day over day consistency.

The same can be said of training and aas. It is definitely fun to debate the edge of nutrition, training, and drugs but in terms of actual effect on your body the net change in effect in optimizing the last couple of percent is essentially zero.

This post is full of victory and win. I agree and re-affirm everything that it says. Nothing more need be said.