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.
a. rice 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 various food sources: oatmeal, rice, garbanzo beans, lima beans, and cornmeal.

a. rice and lima beans

Accepted Answer

All right. Hi, 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 the combination here is corn and oats. So we're also given a table listing the essential amino acids provided by black beans, rice, oats, lentils, and corn. So really quickly, what does it mean when we talk about essential amino acids? They're amino acids, of course. But the reason why they're called essential is because these are the amino acids that are not synthesized by our bodies. So the way that I like to think about it is that it's essential to gain these amino acids from our diet so that our bodies can use them to make the proteins that we need. It's a function, right? So what are the essential amino acids? I'm going to scroll down here so we can have a list of them. The essential amino acids are as follows. There are nine in total. We have histadine. I saw Lucy losing lying methionine spin on alanine. It's the anine trip, the fan or trip the fan and veiling. These are the nine essential amino acids. So now let's reference what amino acids we can gain from both corn and oats. So I have my list written and I'm going to check off the amino acids that each one provides. So let's start with Court Corn is going to provide us with histidine. I saw lucine lucine methane, phenylalanine, reine and vine. So based on this, we can see that it's missing glycine and tryptophan. So now the question is, will oats make up for corn's deficiency of lysine and tryptophan to provide all nine amino acids. So let's see, gonna change color here when checking off oats. So for oats, we have isol Lucy Lo in Mattie and in phenylalanine, rine tryptophan and veiling. So based on this side, by side comparison, we established before that corn was deficient in both lysine and tryptophan. Looking at the amino acids provided by oats, we can see that it does provide tryptophan which core was deficient in, but it itself is also deficient in lying. Which means that even after considering both sources of essential amino acids, we don't have lying. So what that means is to answer this question? No, this combination does not provide all essential amino acids here. I'll be abbreviating amino acids as a a for short. But the main point here is that even after considering both sources, we're still deficient in lying. So we cannot say that all essential amino acids are provided 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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a. rice and lima beans

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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.<IMAGE>a. rice and lima beans