Seeds and vegetables are often deficient in one or more essential amino acids. Using the following table, state whether each combination provides all of the essential amino acids:
b. lima beans and cornmeal

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

b. lima beans and cornmeal

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 following combination provides all of the essential amino acids and the combination is black beans and rice. So here we're also given a table showing us the essential amino acids found in black beans, rice, oats, lentils, and corn. So first, what does it mean when we talk about essential amino acids? Right? What is that referring to? Well, it's referring to amino acids of course, but it's specifically referring to amino acids that are not synthesized by our bodies. So the reason why they're called essential is because it's essential for us to intake these amino acids from our diet so that we can produce the proteins that we need to function, right? And so with this in mind, let's recall what the essential amino acids are. Let me scroll down for a bit here. The essential amino acids are as follows. We have histidine, I saw losing, losing lying methionine, pheno allen in seine trip, the fan and veiling. So that's nine essential amino acids. So now based on our table. Let's see if we can get all nine from the combination of black beans and rice. So looking first at black beans, right? Black beans provide us with histidine, isoleucine, leucine lysine pheno adenine, thine tryptophan and vine. So the only essential amino acid that's missing from black beans is methionine. And so the question is will rice provide methane and complete the essential amino acids? Looking now at the list for rice, right? Rice provides us with histidine, isoleucine, leucine, methionine, phenylalanine, thine, tryptophan and valine. So black beans were deficient in methane but rice compensates for that. Similarly, rice is deficient in lysine and black beans compensate for that as well. So in total, right? Taking into account both sources here, this combination of black beans and rice does provide all the essential amino acids. I am writing a a for short here for amino acids, but there you have it, this combination does provide all essential amino acids. And 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 following table, state whether each combination provides all of the essential amino acids:

b. lima beans and cornmeal

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