Protein Quality Tool

Protein Analysis of mixed nuts,dry rstd,w/pnuts,wo/salt

Full Food Description: Nuts, mixed nuts, dry roasted, with peanuts, without salt added

1. How protein dense is the food?mixed nuts,dry rstd,w/pnuts,wo/salt have a protein density of 11.6498181172 percent which means that 11.6498181172 percent of the calories are from protein. Chicken breast has a protein density of 75%, things like egg whites and nonfat dairy products can approach 100 percent protein.
2. What is the amino acid profile of the food? When you compare the amino acid profile of mixed nuts,dry rstd,w/pnuts,wo/salt to chicken breast in the below chart, you will see that it is most lacking in lysine, in fact, mixed nuts,dry rstd,w/pnuts,wo/salt only has 41.156% as much of lysine as chicken breast does. Because of this, you need to get 2.42978 times as many grams of protein to get the same muscle building properties as you get from chicken breast.
3. How digestible is the food? This is where the science is the weakest. There are a couple ways people have attempted to factor this in – with BV (Biological Value) and with the Protein Digestibility Corrected Amino Acid Score (PDCAAS). Something like whey protein isolate is nearly 100% digestible whereas the protein in some grains is only 50% usable. mixed nuts,dry rstd,w/pnuts,wo/salt has a digestability factor of 0.5 where 1.0 is 100% digestable. Typically when foods are high in fiber, the body has a harder time extracting usable protein from the food. Because not all the protein in this food is digestable, you need to eat 2 times more than you would for a fully digestable food like milk.
4. In Summary Because of the digestability and the lack of lysine, you need to eat get 4.85956 times as many grams of protein in mixed nuts,dry rstd,w/pnuts,wo/salt to get 30 grams of high quality, usable protein.

To get 30 grams of usable protein for muscle building …

You can either this much chicken or this much mixed nuts,dry rstd,w/pnuts,wo/salt :

The best complimentary protein source for nuts,mxd nuts,oil rstd,w/ pnuts,w/ salt added

Of all the essential amino acids, nuts,mxd nuts,oil rstd,w/ pnuts,w/ salt added is lowest in lysine. From the database of over 5000 foods, the following is a list of the top 50 foods that are highest in lysine. Combining one of the following foods with nuts,mxd nuts,oil rstd,w/ pnuts,w/ salt added will give it a much better amino acid profile and make it approximate that of a high quality source like chicken, egg, or whey. By combining these two foods you will be able to get all the essential acids necessary for muscle building with a minimum of calories.

Amino Acids Per Gram Protein