vegetables with "complete" protein?

[silenus]

This has been a very educational thread. Washoe, thanks for the info…it has filled some noted gaps in my knowledge banks.

[dtilque]

@Washoe

While you could stay alive for quite a long period of time consuming nothing but animal flesh, you wouldn’t want to. It would be a pretty miserable existence. And you would eventually die from scurvy.

If you ate the meat raw, you’d get enough vitamin C. Meat has the vitamin, but cooking destroys it. Cecil did a column about this: Traditionally Eskimos ate only meat and fish. Why didn’t they get scurvy?

[wonderwench]

@Rusalka

You mean no “vegetable” food, right? There are non-vegetarian foods that could keep you alive indefinitely without deficiencies, certain kinds of fresh meat, for example. Just ask Ernest Shackleton and his men.

Thanks for the information. I actually had no idea that rice was a “complete” food, I thought it was severely one-sided in the amino acid department, even as brown rice. I thought rice was mostly carbohydrate, actually.

The glycemic index of rice is incredibly high. A high amount in one’s diet can contribute to Type II diabetes.