Substituting maize with legumes in processed rice-like foods raises the amount of essential amino acids, resulting in a more nutritionally complete protein profile.
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Corn is missing some key protein building blocks, but legumes have them. When you mix them together, the final product has all the building blocks the body needs, making the protein more complete and nutritious.
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Corn doesn't have enough of some important building blocks that the body needs to make proteins, but legumes have those missing pieces. When you mix legumes with corn, the body gets all the building blocks it needs, making the overall protein better.
Legumes contain higher concentrations of lysine, threonine, and other essential amino acids that are limiting in maize protein.
When legume and maize proteins are combined in a food matrix, their amino acid profiles complement each other, reducing the limitation of any single amino acid.
The combined amino acid composition increases the total essential amino acid content per gram of protein, improving the nutritional quality of the final product.
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