"Steve Pope" > wrote in message
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> Dan Abel > wrote:
>
>> If you just eat one kind of grain, and no
>> other protein, you will develop a protein deficiency, since the
>> protein in one kind of grain is not complete.
>
> Agreed. Your diet will be lysine-deficient.
>
>> If you eat rice, beans and corn; that is a complete protein.
>> By adding milk to your cereal, that makes the combination a
>> complete protein, as the milk supplies what the cereal is low in.
>
> True, but the ratio of milk required is pretty high. 100 grams
> of whole-wheat cereal has 13.7 grams of protein, of which
> .38 grams is lysine. 100 grams of milk has 3.4 grams of
> protein of which .25 grams is lysine. For protein to be
> lysine-complete there must be at least 58 milligrams of lysine
> per gram of protein. Going through the math you need milk to cereal
> in a ratio greater than nine. i.e. a 2-ounce serving of
> cereal requires over a pint of milk to be lysine-complete.
>
> Steve

Not true... no mix of plant protein can ever make a complete protein. For a
complete protein one must eat animal protein.
Vegetarians espouse all manner of weird rationalizations but they are all
incorrect.