How are proteins classified and what does High-Quality Protein mean?
Food proteins are often classified as being either complete or incomplete proteins depending on their amino acid content. Complete proteins are those food proteins that contain all the essential amino acids in concentrations necessary for human needs. Incomplete proteins are food proteins that are deficient in one or more of the essential amino acids that must be supplied by food.
Food proteins are often classified as either complete or incomplete depending on their amino acid content. Complete proteins are those food proteins that contain all the essential amino acids in concentrations necessary for human needs. Incomplete proteins are food proteins that are deficient in one or more of the essential amino acids that must be supplied by food. “High-quality” proteins are complete proteins containing all the essential (indispensable) amino acids in concentrations sufficient to meet the requirements of humans. Solae® brand soy protein is a high-quality protein with and a Protein Digestibility-Corrected Amino Acid Score (PDCAAS) of 1.0. This is the highest PDCAAS value that any protein can achieve, and means that Solae® soy protein has the same score as meat, milk, and egg proteins. In other words, soy ingredients manufactured by The Solae Quality contain very high quality proteins.
