Is there a difference between animal and plant-based proteins?
Food protein quality is determined on the amount of essential amino acids.
What are essential amino acids?
Proteins are made up of amino acids that are needed for the growth and maintenance of our body cells and tissues.
There are twenty different types of amino acids. Nine amino acids are essential. This means that our body can not produced them and must therefore come from our diet.
Both, animal and plant foods are good sources of protein.
Overall, the quality of animal-based proteins is higher since they contain higher amount of essential amino acids than plant-based proteins.
Overall, the quality of animal-based proteins is higher since they contain higher amount of essential amino acids than plant-based proteins.
