EGGS BEAT A TOP WHOLE FOODS PROTEIN BAR ON USABLE PROTEIN PER DOLLAR.
Protein maxxing is popular, so companies put protein in everything, even junk food. The questions are what that protein costs and how much your body can actually use. DIAAS is a score for how much of a food's protein your body can use. Above 100 means high quality. Take grams of protein per dollar, multiply by DIAAS, and the bigger number is the better buy.
I checked Great Value large eggs at Walmart against Perfect Bar Peanut Butter, one of the top protein bars at Whole Foods.
Eggs: $1.67 a dozen. About 45 grams of protein per dollar. Cooked egg DIAAS 135. That is about 61 grams per dollar of protein your body can use. Under 1 gram of carbs per egg.
Perfect Bar Peanut Butter: $3.39 for one 2.5 oz bar. 17 grams of protein. 26 grams of carbs. About 5 grams of protein per dollar. The finished bar has no published DIAAS. First ingredient is peanut butter. Roasted peanut DIAAS is 0.43. Using that as an estimate: about 2 grams per dollar of protein your body can use. That is about 28 times less.
If you want more protein, skip the protein bar and buy a carton of eggs.
Egg DIAAS (Fanelli 2024):
The digestible indispensable amino acid score (DIAAS) in eggs and egg-containing breakfast meals is greater than in toast breads or hash browns served without eggs - PMC
The objectives of this experiment were to determine the digestible indispensable amino acid score (DIAAS) for eggs cooked in different forms and in...
Peanut DIAAS estimate (Rutherfurd 2015):
https://doi.org/10.3945/jn.114.195438
Walmart eggs price:
Perfect Bar at Whole Foods:
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The beef babies also had more head growth from 7 to 12 months, and they took the beef just as well as the cereal.
"But cereal has iron!" It's iron sprayed onto starch. Iron is absorbed at 14 to 18% from diets with meat, and only 5 to 12% from vegetarian diets. Meat itself helps your body absorb iron. Cereal doesn't.
A growing brain needs protein, fat, zinc and iron. Infant cereal is starch, which turns to sugar, with iron added, and the baby-food industry has sold it hard for decades while real meat sat right there on the shelf.
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16456417/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20200263/
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