proteinIs Quorn protein a good quality protien compared to natural meat protein?
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I'm vegatarian and eat a lot of Quorn protein and I'm wondering if some of the Quorn "fake" meat products that are "hign in protein" for example
Quorn Chicken style pieces contains roughly (from my pre lunch checks!) 45g in 300g of "chicken" while its not massive amount and I take whey protein and weight gainer shakes etc it still helps me as i include it with lentils, eggs, shakes etc in my daily diet.
What I want to know is, is that 45g good quality protein an comparable to 45g of genuine chicken protein for example? Or should I drop it an look elsewhere for another source?
Thanks in advance.
Terry
Quorn Chicken style pieces contains roughly (from my pre lunch checks!) 45g in 300g of "chicken" while its not massive amount and I take whey protein and weight gainer shakes etc it still helps me as i include it with lentils, eggs, shakes etc in my daily diet.
What I want to know is, is that 45g good quality protein an comparable to 45g of genuine chicken protein for example? Or should I drop it an look elsewhere for another source?
Thanks in advance.
Terry
By Terry Ellis – over 1 year ago
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Quorn is a high-protein food. Technically, it is a man-made "fungus" like mushrooms, made by mixing the product of fungal growth with egg albumin (which helps bind it together).
On a like-for-like basis - so eating a certain number of grams of quorn versus eating a certain number of grams of beef - you need to eat twice as much quorn to get just about the same amount of essential amino acids (which are the only physical dietary building blocks needed for growth and repair of muscle).
Studies in the past have shown that there may be other nutritional considerations that make the beef more easily absorbed and retained by the human digestive system than non-animal protein sources but quorn is better than eating nuts, legumes, grains, etc, which all lack an adequate amount of one of the essential amino acids and therefore can't support muscle growth and maintenance on their own.
So overall, to answer your question, 45 grams of quorn is probably equivalent in protein nutrition to about 20 grams of chicken. However, if you get a gram per pound of bodyweight of protein per day, including quorn, whey protein, eggs as a substantial part of that protein intake, you should be getting adequate protein intake to fuel muscle growth and repair.
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