In fact, plants can provide comparable nutrition to animal protein, and without the downsides; many plants have more protein per calorie than meat. Let’s highlight some numbers from the Protein Chart: A cheeseburger contains about 0.04 grams of protein per calorie, and raw spinach has about 0.12 grams of protein per calorie—three times as much. Of course, since spinach is so low in calories you’d need to eat much more to get a comparable amount of protein, but that’s easily done—a pound of spinach cooks down to next to nothing. And in that pound of spinach, you’ll find 100 calories—and
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