Moving on from the topic of protein quality I want to wrap up this guide to dietary protein source by looking at a grab-bag of other factors. This includes the micronutrient content, dietary fat content, and other issues such as availability, the protein content and price.
Outside of a few select groups (that often get a majority of their protein from isolated sources such as protein powders or amino acids), most people get their daily protein from whole food sources and whole foods contain other nutrients. Some of those nutrients may be beneficial, some of them may be detrimental. But all are worth considering.
Micronutrient Content
The major ‘extra’ nutrients I want to look at in this article are zinc, iron, B12, calcium. In the next part of this article series, I’ll take a look at the issue of dietary fat content, both in terms of good and bad fats. This is simply to keep the length a bit more manageable.… Keep Reading