Seeds and vegetables are often deficient in one or more essential amino acids. Using the table in problem 16.63, state whether each combination provides all of the essential amino acids.
c. oatmeal and lima beans

Question

Seeds and vegetables are often deficient in one or more essential amino acids. Using the table in problem 16.63, state whether each combination provides all of the essential amino acids.

Table showing essential amino acid content in oatmeal, rice, garbanzo beans, lima beans, and cornmeal.

c. oatmeal and lima beans

Accepted Answer

All right. Hello everyone. So this question says that one or more essential amino acids are frequently lacking in seeds and vegetables based on the given table indicate if the given combination provides all of the essential amino acids. And so the combination here is black beans and lentils. In addition, we're also given a table listing the essential amino acids provided by black beans, rice, oats, lentils, and corn. So with this in mind, what exactly is an essential amino acid? It's an amino acid, of course, but recall that essential amino acids refer to the ones that are not synthesized in other words, not made by our bodies, right? So the way that I like to think of it is that it's essential to intake these amino acids from our diets, that's how our body can use them to produce the proteins that we need to function, right? So first, let's recall all nine essential amino acids. So listing them off here, we have histidine. I saw Lucy losing li met in phenylalanine three. You mean trip the fan or trip the fan and veiling. That's all nine amino acids. So based on our table, let's consider both sources and see if we can account for all nine amino acids. So now that I have my list in front of me, I'm going to go checking off the essential amino acids that each source provides. Starting off with black beans. Black beans provide us with histidine, isoleucine, blueing, lighting, pheno, alanine, thine, Kane and vine. So the only essential amino acid that black beans are deficient in is methane. So now the question is, will lentils compensate for that? Let's see. So I'm going to check off now the amino acids provided by lentils. So that's isoleucine, lucine glycine, phenylalanine, rine and vine. So considering now are two lists side by side, we can see that both sources are deficient in methane. So all of the eight remaining essential amino acids are accounted for, but we are still deficient in methionine, which means that we cannot say that all essential amino acids are provided. Sort of answer the question. We would say that no, it referring to the combination of black beans and lentils does not provide all essential amino acids or a a for short and there you have it. So with that being said, thank you so very much for watching and I hope you found this helpful.

Seeds and vegetables are often deficient in one or more essential amino acids. Using the table in problem 16.63, state whether each combination provides all of the essential amino acids.

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c. oatmeal and lima beans

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