If you were diagnosed as having a diet low in lysine, what foods might you include in your diet to alleviate this problem?

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All right. Hello everyone. So this question says that essential amino acids are necessary for proper protein synthesis and metabolic function and must be acquired through the diet. Which foods would you incorporate into your diet to correct an essential amino acid deficiency? And here we have four different answer choices labeled A through D which we'll discuss later on in this video. But for now, the main thing to understand is just a few facts about essential amino acids and where to get them in the diet. So first and foremost, one example of a very important essential amino acid is pheno alanine. And so because amino acids, especially essential amino acids are components of protein, specifically consuming protein is going to be a very important source of these essential amino acids. So we can talk about animal products, but we can also talk about plant based protein sources. So with this in mind, let's go ahead and talk about each of these individual answer choices. Starting off with option A, we have whole wheat bread, oatmeal and spinach. So this statement or rather the these options are going to be incorrect because these foods contain protein to an extent they're not going to be high enough in essential amino acids like phenylalanine compared to the other sources that we talked about before, that is animal products and plant based protein. On the other hand, in option B, we have eggs, soybeans and dairy products. This is correct, right. As mentioned before, eggs and dairy products are an animal products and therefore sources of essential amino acids and soybeans are an example of plant based protein. So these are excellent sources to correct essential amino acid deficiency. However, option C which says white rice, olive oil and lettuce does not right because white rice and olive oil being a carbohydrate and a lipid respectively contain little to no phe phenylalanine and lettuce in general has a very low protein content. So that's not going to fix the issue here. Lastly, we have option D which says apples, oranges and carrots. Now, fruits and vegetables are great, but they're not high in p phenylalanine because fruits and vegetables generally do not contain much protein. So the answer in the context of essential amino acid deficiency is going to be option B eggs, soybeans and dairy products are our best bet and there you have it. So with that being said, thank you so very much for watching and I hope you found this helpful

If you were diagnosed as having a diet low in lysine, what foods might you include in your diet to alleviate this problem?

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Lysine

Protein Sources

Dietary Adjustments