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runnerup | 2 years ago

> Wouldn't you want to look at protein per calorie or EAA per calorie?

PDCAAS is a reasonable standard to use, pro-rated against total calories.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_Digestibility_Correc...

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hombre_fatal|2 years ago

One problem with PDCAAS is that it's based on the limiting EAA in a food, but everyone interprets it as a general bioavailability ratio when it's not.

A food with 1000x the EAAs per calorie of every other food, but 0 of one EAA would score below the other foods even though you could get the day's worth of EAA on 1/1000 the calories + one serving of an additional food that can give you the missing EAA (i.e. eat more than one food every day).