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  • E

    I always find this question bewildering.

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    Let’s say you only eat red lentils for your proteins, which according to that DIAAS calculator has only 59% of the SAA compared to the amino acid distribution that your body needs. Then the solution is simply to eat twice as many red lentils to get to 118% SAA. That isn't quite how Liebig's barrel works, just to be clear you need to eat till the minimum amino acid is satisfied. So Red Lentils, you need to eat 200g to get 25g of usable bioavailable protein. For a average adult with a 130g daily protein requirement, that means they will need to eat ~5x that dose, so 1,000g of red lentils per day. Now, a body builder may be willing to eat 1kg of cooked red lentils per day, but that is a big ask for the global population. DIAAS is only relevant, if you eat close to the minimum amount of protein that your body needs in general, which is hard to do. Most people under eat their protein; Especially if we look at consumed protein by diaas measurement and not "crude protein" estimates based on nitrogen readings.
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    They put A.I. in my truck. It warns me of everything I do wrong verbally. It reports everything to HQ. It is from a company called Solera. I take offense to this. Am I wrong? What can I do? Anything?

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    We got a badass over here. Lol
  • hark@lemmy.worldH

    No.

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    Fried okra good. Okra in soup makes everything snotty and gross and then my mom made me eat it anyway and I just can't. /childhood texture trauma
  • totallynotspezupload@startrek.websiteT

    I've been a vegetarian for the past 24 years, but if I ate meat, and it was banned, I'd defo try insects.

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    I've nibbled on my dog's cricket flour treats. Tasted like any other dog treat. She adored them, though.
  • jackbydev@programming.devJ

    How do you even answer this?

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  • R

    I guess I'd try some, regardless of the legal status of other meats.

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  • a_random_idiot@lemmy.worldA

    Insects are not meat.

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    You think nuggets are 95% meat? Long may you remain in blissful ignorance.
  • L

    No, I'd hunt deer on the reservation.

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  • mydarkesttimeline01@ani.socialM

    I love shrimp and lobster, man.

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    I would side with you if it wasn't for the parent thread using the word "insect". It is definitely some form of nit picking though on my part.
  • C

    We always imagine personal defense weapons as a hand held point shoot thingy. If anything was possible what alternatives could you think of?

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    Thank you for your wise words, stranger. This cautionary tale will live on in my memory
  • C

    Interesting perspective.

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  • R

    aren't shrimps insects too?

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    Interesting, do you know if mealworm popcorn like taste is innate to them? (i dont like popcorn)
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    Any one else have absolutely wild dreams?

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    I didn't really think about it before, but yes, the tactile sensation of its smooth but clearly not artificially smooth surface is there. The apple isn't in one piece like this. It's fragmented but connected (seemingly like everything else in my memory). When I think of an apple, the shape, the various red shades, surface feel, crispness, smell and flavor of a bite, as well as the visual guidance of a knife to cut into it all manifest at nearly the same time. And yes, that's exactly how I would describe it like a framebuffer. Almost as fast too, a single frame where an image of an apple sits on a table then the rest of my processing continues. For whatever reason, computer science and architecture has helped me explain this as sort of a populated instance of class Apple. This instance sits in hard storage, and retrieves it when I get apple from main memory. But that's not just all. Apple is a fruit, so I also get information about the fruit object, and fruits connected to it too, in real time. I have ADHD, so I know my brain is physically wired differently. I suspect it's related to the "cobweb" of thoughts that is normally present.
  • match@pawb.socialM

    hopefully we start breeding meatier bugs because the insects I've eaten have been like 90% shell

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    Could say that about a lot of things. Rice is a delivery device for soy sauce
  • S

    I'd just go and eat people.

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  • K

    Shellfish are bugs of the ocean.

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  • U

    I would eat insects right now if they were cooked by a chef who knew what they were doing.

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    Throwing in an entire stick of butter and a generous dash of salt and garlic will already get you halfway there. I read somewhere that the reason you can’t quite get the same taste of a restaurant dish when doing it at home is because of the absurd amount of butter and salt they use.
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    I’ma keep it real with you homie…

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    In the documentary blade runner 2049 they farm bugs for protein
  • B

    I'd rather switch to the beans.

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  • R

    30M After divorce I got literally zero support from anyone, why?

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    We learn from our mistakes don't we? Hows it go, it's only truly a mistake if we don't learn from it. It's still your liberation day, and I still wish you the best in finding what you need in life. Love a good fresh start, be kind to yourself out there, stay genuine to your heart.