Learning About Proteins Listen You probably know you need to eat protein, but what is it? Many foods contain protein (say: pro-teen), but the best sources are beef, poultry, fish, eggs, dairy products, nuts, seeds, and legumes like black beans and lentils. Protein builds, maintains, and replaces the tissues in your body. Your body uses the protein you eat to make lots of specialized protein molecules that have specific jobs. Other proteins are used to build cardiac muscle. All About Amino Acids When you eat foods that contain protein, the digestive juices in your stomach and intestine go to work. Proteins are sometimes described as long necklaces with differently shaped beads. Of those 22 amino acids, your body can make 13 of them without you ever thinking about it.
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