595 - Are Beans a Protein or Carbohydrate?

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🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Most vegetarians consider beans to be a protein food. But most beans are much higher in carbohydrates than protein. Should we think of beans as a protein, a starch, or both? Read the transcript. Check out all the Quick and Dirty Tips shows. Subscribe to the newsletter for regular updates. Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Links: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/health-fitness/healthy-eating/beans-protein-carbohydrate https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/podcasts https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/subscribe https://www.facebook.com/QDTNutrition/ https://twitter.com/NutritionDiva

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:05.0	in this episode I'm your host Monica Reinagle and in this episode I'm going to
0:11.0	to the Eternally episode I'm going to answer the eternal question are beans of protein or a
0:15.8	carbohydrate food. Vegetarians and vegans lean pretty hard on beans as a
0:21.3	source of protein.
0:22.8	And even those of us who sometimes eat meat
0:25.1	but also enjoy plant-based meals
0:27.5	will often build our meat-free meals
0:30.0	around some sort of legume.
0:31.7	And that's because legumes contain more protein
0:34.8	per serving than most other plant foods.
0:38.1	But the nutritional profile of legumes
0:40.2	is very different from animal protein sources.
0:43.0	Eggs, meat, fish, and chicken
0:46.0	get anywhere from 50 to 95% of their calories from protein, with the rest usually coming from fat.
0:55.0	Legumes, on the other hand, only get about a quarter of their calories from protein,
1:00.0	and the rest is mostly carbohydrate. Soybeans are a bit of an exception
1:05.8	being higher in both protein and fat and lower in carbohydrate than other legumes.
1:12.3	Peanuts, which are technically legumes,
1:15.0	are another exception.
1:16.0	They're even higher in fat than soybeans
1:19.0	and lower in protein than most beans.
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