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Protein: are you getting enough?

ZOE Science & Nutrition

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The Differences Between Animal Protein and Plant Protein

The estimated average requirement of protein for a lot of people could be close to 40 grams, which is pretty low. There are 20 amino acids and 2 times 20 is not even close; you need tons of glutamine, glutamine, aspartate, asparagine. You need hardly any tryptophan, methionine, cysteine. And the best way I found to describe this is the game of Scrabble.

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