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DetectDefectlast Thursday at 5:32 AM1 replyview on HN

> There are almost no vegetables that are considered amino acid complete

This is just blatantly and hilariously false.

They are literally called "essential amino acids".

A plant would not survive if it lacked amino acids which are essential.

It it shocking anyone would deny this obvious and extremely basic fact about biology.


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tomplast Thursday at 10:20 AM

you need to educate yourself better about "basic facts about biology"

they're called essential because humans cannot produce them internally, so we have to consume them (though you could in principle make the same assessment for other animal species, but that's less relevant, unless you're, I don't know, raising cows?)

plants don't eat, but produce organic molecules from raw ingredients (or almost raw, in case of nitrogen), and can produce all amino acids - but in different quantities, so maybe the (parts of) plants you eat don't have all the necessary amino acids.

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