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Plant Proteins And Exercise: What Role Can Plant Proteins Have In Promoting Adaptations To Exercise?, Chad M. Kerksick, Andrew Jagim, Anthony Hagele, Ralf Jäger

Faculty Scholarship

Adequate dietary protein is important for many aspects of health with current evidence suggesting that exercising individuals need greater amounts of protein. When assessing protein quality, animal sources of protein routinely rank amongst the highest in quality, largely due to the higher levels of essential amino acids they possess in addition to exhibiting more favorable levels of digestibility and absorption patterns of the amino acids. In recent years, the inclusion of plant protein sources in the diet has grown and evidence continues to accumulate on the comparison of various plant protein sources and animal protein sources in their ability to …