- Soybeans
are considered a "complete protein" source
in that they provide
all the essential amino acids
for human nutrition.However, some scientific
sources disagree on this as the best measure of "complete protein."Soybean protein is essentially identical to that of other legume
pulses
(that is to say, legume proteins in general consist of 7S and 11S
storage
proteins), and is one of the least expensive sources of dietary protein.
For this reason, soy is important to many vegetarians
and vegans.
- An
English-Danish study has found that a component of carrots called
falcarinol and beta-carotene, another cancer fighter may be able to
prevent cancer. In the study, rats that were fed either raw carrots or
just the falcarinol extracted from the carrots demonstrated a delay in
the growth of the colon tumors that the researchers were
studying. The falcarinol study used raw carrots and it is not known how
cooking would affect the cancer-preventing quality of falcarinol.
