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Someone kindly recommended it to me as an easy protein substitute I can have with pasta. Meatballs etc don't fill me up enough. I've never made it but I'm gonna get some, any tips?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

OK, so is not high protein? I'm not sure what you mean

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

It's high protein, it just doesn't have a perfect amino acid profile. Basically if it's your only source of protein/aminos, you could become nutritionally deficient.

Specifically, it's sorta low-ish on Lysine and Tryptophan. It's not that there's none in seitan, it's just not quite in the quantities you'd want if you fully used it as your sole protein source.

As long as you eat some other food that's known to have those two amino acids (which many plants and other protein sources do), you're good :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

Ahhhh I see thanks 😊