• Hawk@lemmynsfw.com
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    30 days ago

    Yeah corn syrup be about a couple of cents on this plot.

    It would be much more interesting to see this in terms of a combination of protein, unsaturated fats And micronutrients.

    Like which combination is the cheapest of all?

    I suspect it would be something like:

    • Peanut butter (mono)
    • Sunflower oil (poly)
    • WPC (protein with good amino profile)
    • Celery (insoluble fiber)
    • Psyllium husk (soluble fiber)
    • Rice (carbs, low gi)
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      30 days ago

      Let’s call out complete proteins too. Otherwise you still have to mix and match food sources. Soy would probably win.

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        It depends on the country for soy. Objectively in the absence of interference, it’s cheaper and still relatively complete.

        But for whatever reason, a lot of Western governments like the US and Australia heavily subsidise animal proteins, so I think in those regions WPC still has a slight edge.

        Then again a lot of people struggle with lactose And soy is probably cheaper than WPI.

        Gainz is work haha.

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        It depends on the country for soy. Objectively in the absence of interference, it’s cheaper and still relatively complete.

        But for whatever reason, a lot of Western governments like the US and Australia heavily subsidise animal proteins, so I think in those regions WPC still has a slight edge.

        Then again a lot of people struggle with lactose And soy is probably cheaper than WPI.

        Gainz is work haha.