The off-grid survivalist dude in invidious video ID “YOXkcz8j3Gc”
[https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=YOXkcz8j3Gc] says milk & potatoes are
“nutritionally complete”, which if I understand correctly means that pairing
covers the 9 essential amino acids. That’s cool… but not vegan. A pescetarian in
my family was hospitalized for malnutrition. Not sure what he did wrong or what
he was short on, but he doesn’t strike me as someone who would be overly
negligent. IMO, as a non-vegan outsider looking in, a vegan diet is easy to
screw up & requires some research to stay safe. You can’t just live on rabbit
food. So I wonder if the title-linked article
[https://cleanplates.com/nutrition/complete-protein-combinations/] has the
answers. In short, it claims these pairings are nutritionally complete: 1. rice
& beans 2. tofu & veg (questionable¹?) 3. chickpeas & wheat 4. peanut butter &
whole wheat toast² 5. pinto beans³ & corn 6. whole wheat pasta & peas 7. lentils
& rice ←I’m bummed it’s not lentils & couscous, which I often use in lentil
salad 8. oatmeal & pumpkin seeds Note that all links referenced in this post are
Cloudflare-free and openly accessible to all. Also no big cookie popups or
similar garbage.
footnotes (with questions!): 1. I find tofu & vegetables suspicious. There are
countless vegetables, so this is quite vague. How can we expect any given veg to
have whatever tofu is missing? This makes me somewhat skeptical of the whole
article. 2. Why toast? Why not bread? 3. Or skip the pinto beans and just make
sure your corn is infected with a purple fungus containing lysine
[https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/08/24/433232707/scourge-no-more-chefs-invite-corn-fungus-to-the-plate],
assuming #lysine is the reason pinto beans are paired with corn.
Crossposting here because an off-grider is relying on milk and potatoes for nutrition completeness. I suppose getting nutritional completeness with as few ingredients as possible is generally interesting to off-grid living.
The thing they don’t mention when they say that a combination of food items are “nutritionally complete”, is what quantities they need to be consumed in. Some micronutrients are technically in a lot of foods, but you’d have to eat the equivalent of 15,000 calories a day to get what you need. There’s definitely a lot of people around the globe who get by on rice and beans for 90% of their diet, but they do have to eat other stuff. Lots of nutrient deficiencies also take a while to start to have an effect, and the effects might not be obvious. I know what pellagra, scurvy, and rickets do, but I have no clue what a selenium deficiency would do
The thing they don’t mention when they say that a combination of food items are “nutritionally complete”, is what quantities they need to be consumed in. Some micronutrients are technically in a lot of foods, but you’d have to eat the equivalent of 15,000 calories a day to get what you need. There’s definitely a lot of people around the globe who get by on rice and beans for 90% of their diet, but they do have to eat other stuff. Lots of nutrient deficiencies also take a while to start to have an effect, and the effects might not be obvious. I know what pellagra, scurvy, and rickets do, but I have no clue what a selenium deficiency would do