Functions from Essential Amino Acids

🌱 What's for lunch today? Are you consuming the right foods to meet your body’s essential needs? 🥗⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Amino acids are building blocks to protein, for which there are 20 within the human body, 9 of which are essential. This means that our body doesn't naturally make them and we must consume them from our diet.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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We need all of them for total body health. Foods that include all 9 essential amino acids are known as “complete proteins”. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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WHAT TO EAT:⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
🍣 High in essential AAs: meat, eggs, soy proteins, white fish, peanuts, sesame, and Parmesan. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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➡️ If you are vegetarian or vegan, and/or feel limited by the list above, then finding the right combinations of foods is the key to creating a complete protein:⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
👉🏼 Beans & vegetables 🥦 lack methionine 👉🏼 eat with grains, nuts, seeds⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
👉🏼 Grains, Nuts/Seeds, & Corn 🌽 lack lysine, (threonine, tryptophan) 👉🏼 eat with legumes⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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💊 You can also supplement isoleucine, leucine, & valine in powders/pills sold as branched-chain amino acids or commonly known as "BCAAs". Many people opt to take these pre/post workout to help with fatigue & muscle recovery.⠀