Where Do You Get The Protein?

One of the questions that I get asked the most when we became vegans is, where do you get the protein from, and to help answer that question, I am here with Karina, who is a vegan/vegetarian nutritionist. She helped us made the transition to veganism.

I would like you to share with us, where do vegans/vegetarians get their protein from.

That is a very common question; there are a lot of people with that concern. Why? How do we substitute the protein?

Once we make the transition to vegetarian or even veganism, which is a diet a bit more extreme than vegetarianism because we are talking about excluding all foods of animal origin, how are we going to replace the protein from the meat?

With plant-based food, today, that concern is only a myth. To think that we can’t get enough protein from a plant-based diet, it shouldn’t be a concern; it shouldn’t be a concern. It’s only a myth.
You get the protein straight from the vegetables. The group of food with a higher content of protein is legumins.

To be able to meet the recommendations that our body needs, we have to balance the group of foods, to be able to meet the recommendations that our body needs we have to balance the group of foods.

We have the group of the fats, that is to say, oilseeds, what are they nuts and seeds. We have the group of the legumens; we are referring to beans, lentils, broad beans,  tempeh, tofu, every variety of beans, garbanzo beans.

All the varieties mention before belonging to the group of legumins, which have a lot of protein, and we have the group of the grains like quinoa, barley, wheat, rice, corn or polenta which is made of corn, we have amaranth, we have a lot of variety, Kamut; we have triticale also known in English as buckwheat and … well there are a lot of grains.

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