Hemp seeds make a great parmesan.
Look up “hemp seeds parmesan”
Heil Seitan
For comparison: Meat usually has around 20-30%.
@MsSprouts I hate this axis on the chart. It’s not correct. Not even close.
@hamid The difference between the last entries have the same length yet their values don’t match. Indicated this below. I make the amount of protein in seitan and the pasta seem closer than they are.
The bottom bars show 10g of difference and 30g yet the actual bars have the same length. It’s misleading.
Why is edamame pasta so much higher than soybeans when their only ingredient is soybeans?
Could it be that they are measuring the weight of dried pasta vs the weight of fresh beans?🫛
per unit weight is also a silly metric for this type of thing. this very well could be dry pasta, and water would be the biggest part by weight then.
the first brand that pops up is about 15% protein by weight cooked. there’s either a ton of variance by brand, or this is uncooked values
Edamame is harvested at a totally different stage of development of the plant and has a much different composition than the dried beans including higher protein content and lower carbohydrates. As the pea matures it turns nutrients received from the plant and pod into carbohydrates over its lifecycle to (in theory) power germination and regrowth, but of course we eat that lol.
Thank you, TIL!
So if you make a flour, or rather a paste I guess, from the green soybeans you can capture that? Interesting, I’ll have to try it!
Of course , it’s very important to cook soybeans fully before eating them. But according to the box instructions it won’t take as long as wheat flour pasta, about 5 minutes.
Off to the farmer’s market!
This has reminded me that there used to be a brand called Modern Table which made vegan macaroni and cheese using red lentil flour for the pasta. It was delicious. I don’t even know what the “cheese” was made out of, but it was also delicious. Better than any other mac and cheese I have had. But of course, as so many niche products do, they quickly disappeared from shelves.
I’m not even vegan, and I still miss that mac and cheese.
The pasta could contain more than edamame, like pea or lentil as well. We would need to see the source.
