apart from nuts and shakes

BlueIsland

Ok so apart from nuts and shakes can someone give me a high protein- low calorie snack for mid morning!!!!!!!

tribulus

Chicken, tuna, turkey, salmon, any lean meat/fish.

Don't forget the good fats too.

mack1

as Trib said, lean meat/fish,
cottage cheese is good too.

also - nuts are not low calorie by a long shot!

BlueIsland

I just looked over what I wrote and it does come across that I thought nuts are low calorie. I know they not and thats why I am asking for a low calorie high protein snack.

pwd

nut protein is only useful if combined with wehat and beans/pulses anyway

daveirl

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matrixroyal

pwd wrote: »

nut protein is only useful if combined with wehat and beans/pulses anyway

Is that right ? For instance, this afternoon my snack consists of an apple, an orange a pear and 2 handfuls of mixed unsalted nuts. I used to just have the fruit on it's own but now I am trying to incorporate protein into every meal. So is this protein going to good use ?

g'em

pwd wrote: »

nut protein is only useful if combined with wehat and beans/pulses anyway

rubbish

matrixroyal wrote: »

I used to just have the fruit on it's own but now I am trying to incorporate protein into every meal. So is this protein going to good use ?

yes

pwd

I've read lots of places that you need all essential amino acids at once in order to use protein to build tissue. A quick google supports this. Quick example:

"Incomplete proteins are not capable of building muscle"

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=475752

"To be useful to a person, the totality of food proteins must be
'complete' - that is, all eight essential amino acids must be ingested
simultaneously, and in the right proportion. Incomplete proteins
cannot be used to build muscle and tissue; they often end up as stored
fat or are utilized for energy...

'Certainly some vegetable proteins, if fed as the sole source of
protein, are of relatively low value for promoting growth,' the
editors of the British medical journal Lancet wrote in 1959."

A STUDY GUIDE TO COUNSELS ON DIET AND FOODS
http://www.whiteestate.org/guides/CD.pdf

g'em

There are other uses for amino acids other than simply for muscle building. Besides which nuts contain good fats, vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients and antioxidants, so eating them is never useless. Foods with incomplete protein profiles eaten over the course of the day will still contribute to muscle tissue formation anyway.

Keep it in context - the nuts are being suggested as between meal snacks, not the sole source of protein in the diet.

And I'd rate google answers only moderately more accurate than the woefully unreliable wikipedia. Don't beleive everything you read.

pwd

I didn't say that nuts are useless - I said nut protein is useless if it's not combined.

The google answers link was summarising a conference paper above - so in this case it could be considered reliable.

Here's the conference paper quote and link again:
"Incomplete proteins cannot be used to build muscle and tissue; they often end
up as stored fat or are utilized for energy."
http://www.whiteestate.org/guides/CD.pdf


Here is a similar statement in a journal article:
"Incomplete protein lacks some amino acids and ideally should be combined with some complete protein foods. Grains, beans, nuts, seeds, are Incomplete protein sources."

http://www.homehealthcarenurseonline.com/pt/re/homehealthnurse/pdfhandler.00004045-200203000-00009.pdf;jsessionid=HTzLMTfzTgN1C4pQ11lQhbVH0bBW2TZxhxrK2qB1kv2F93HHyb6p!65375592!181195628!8091!-1

rubadub

But is it so important to eat them all at the same time? You hear this quoted "you can only absorb Xg of protein in an hour".

Last time I got sick I saw meat from several hours beforehand. i.e. these nuts are probably still going through your system and in the course of the day you will get in other protein sources too.

pwd

I read that it's ok as long as you eat them in the next meal (not in the context of 6 meals a day). So if you eat toast and peanut butter for breakfast and beans for lunch you get very high quality protein (as good as eggs).

g'em

It's arguing over pedantics unecessarily. Nuts, in moderation, are a great addition to the diet. Why make it more complicated than that?