confuset by oatmeal amino-acid profile

[ovidiu]

i was browsing nutritiondata.com and i found this oatmeal that seems to have all amino-acids...
http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts-001-02s018e.html
it says it's unenriched...
am i missing something? i thought cereal had incomplete proteins in it

[georgiacorn]

if i were u, i'd post this again in the derek charlebois forum. ask beast, str8flexed, etc. -- they will be able to answer ur question.

[Leafs/Pack]

i was browsing nutritiondata.com and i found this oatmeal that seems to have all amino-acids...
http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts-001-02s018e.html
it says it's unenriched...
am i missing something? i thought cereal had incomplete proteins in it

Hmmm... it seems to me that they are talking about just regular quaker oats too... I thought that oats were an incomplete protein, anyone know?

[ovidiu]

bump

[xxghostxx]

Something can be an incomplete protein if they are missing an amino acid or don't have enough of one or more essential amino acids. Grain foods are normally low in lysine, so to compliment the amino profile and complete it, you can add something high in lysine like beans, and or peas to make it a little better amino wise. If you are eating it with a complete protein source to begin with, than I wouldn't worry to much.

[ovidiu]

yeas but if u look at this food's amino-acid profile, u'll see that all essential amino-acids are there... am i missing one?

[xxghostxx]

Read my post again See where I said that it can be considered incomplete if their is not enough of a certain essential amino acid? Click on your link for oatmeal and look at the lysine content (which I also mentioned is the limiting amino in grains),then go and compare that amino profile to something like an egg and see how all the numbers fall more or less together with very limited extremes....

[ovidiu]

ok, i searched for some milk(http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts-001-02s001x.html) but guess what? it's deficient in .... lyisine

[xxghostxx]

ok, i searched for some milk(http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts-001-02s001x.html) but guess what? it's deficient in .... lyisine

haha got me, that's strange.
*EDIT* I went and looked at skim milk and the lysine is way up on that one,the the threonine is down...something wierd with that Go figure.

[serave]

years later, lol. I found something interesting for those that are still wondering about. Lysine is the amino acid that oats are missing the most to trigger growth. Check the study found here STUDIES OF AMINO ACID SUPPLEMENTATION AND AMINO ACID AVAILABILITY WITH OATS http://jn.nutrition.org/content/66/4/533.full.pdf

[psychodiver9]

Really tempted