Protein rich vegetarian food for weight loss in India

When we want to lose fat or weight from our body everyone start counting the number of calories, sugar and salt from the diet but we completely forgot about the protein intake.

Protein is one of the type of nutrition.Protein are essential nutrients for our body. It is made of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and one or more chains of amino acid.It is macronutrients that means we need relatively large large amount of it to stay healthy.

Protein is an important building block of bones, muscles, skin etc. In fact our hair and nails are also comprise with protein.Our body use protein to build and repair tissue. It also play an important role in hormones regulation.

Eating high protein food help in speedy recovery after injury and exercise. It also help in reducing muscle loss ,building lean muscle and maintain healthy weight

Though its our misconception that Indian recipes are largely healthy and there are no food problem in Indian diet but it is not true in real world .Carbs from 70% of our diet and very much deficient in protein and fibre. Our Indian snacks are probably amongst the unhealthiest in the world. 

And if we try to solve this problem of diet then we have to control our tongue and if the person is vegetarian than our problem become very big because person is restricted to very small list of food items. 

So let's see the vegetarian food items which contain good amount of protein sources 

~Lentils(Daal):

1cup of lentils contain 18gm of protein 

~Legumes(Kidney beans, Black beans, Chickpeas):

1cup serving gives 15gm of protein 

~Nuts(Almond,Cashewnut):

20 to 25 whole almond contains 6gm of protein 

~Green peas:

1 full cup of green peas contains 9gm of protein 

~Quinoa(Types of cereals like wheat and rice):

1 full cup of quinoa contains 9gm of protein 

~Oats:

1 small cup of oats contain 6gm of protein

~Soya Chunks:

100gm of uncooked soya chunks gives 52gm of protein

~Milk:

1 cup of milk contains 8gm of protein

~Peanuts:

1 cup of peanut contains 38gm of protein.

~Paneer:

100gm of paneer contains 19.1gm of protein 

~Mushroom:

100gm of mushroom contains 3.1gm of protein