[lolwaaaat]

What drives you crazy about vegans? That your flawed, biased assumptions are challenged? Protein is in all whole foods. You don't need to eat soy, or legumes, to get your fill as a vegan. You just eat food. Like a regular person. Except you don't hurt animals in the process. Simple!

[Ensorceled]

Weird. All my vegan and vegetarian cookbooks have lentils, beans, chickpeas or tofu. often mixed with nuts, in pretty much every dish. And suggest nutritional yeast as a good source of B vitamins, especially B12 (admittedly as an additive)

This is wrong? Are you claiming you can just eat cruciferous vegetables, for instance, and be fine?

[lolwaaaat]

Well, humans require fewer than 5% of calories to be derived from protein, that's about 50-60g for males and slightly less for females. You could eat 2,500 calories of only fruit and still get enough protein. But not B12, that requires a supplement. The sources you mentioned are high in protein, but I would argue they aren't necessary for a functional vegan diet.

[Ensorceled]

As somebody who runs and trains in karate, I need more like 80g per day. I'd be hard pressed to do that with only fruit.

[lolwaaaat]

Why do you need more than 80g per day? What's the basis of this estimate?

[Ensorceled]

Running Room, Livestrong, MyFitnessPal, countless other sites, my running clinic leader, the sports nutritionist at my running clinic, my doctor (certified in sports medicine) all recommended between 80 and 100 grams.

You really don't know what you are talking about do you?

[omgwtfutoo]

A couple of for profit blogs and people without a nutrition education inform you. Sad. Check any reputable source, like WHO, you are eating too much protein, dude.