Ensuring you’re getting enough good quality protein into your diet is crucial – we are literally built of protein, but was is the function of protein in the body? We need this for our physical structure and strength, to repair damaged/worn-out cells and to produce hormones, which control hundreds of processes within the body and have a huge impact on how we think and feel. Current daily guideline amounts for adults is 50g of protein.
Protein is made up of amino acids. There are 20 amino acids – some we can synthesise ourselves, but there are 9 that we can’t produce (hence the term “ess