Hi Janic,
Oh, we should find you a little organic salad somewhere, with half an AB cookie.
Oh! It would be great!
It seems to me that your intake of sugars and proteins is low. It takes, and I grant you that plants bring it.
Referring to a salad is obvious, but it was not a reference, but an example from a day, not a model in itself.
For sugars and proteins, the VG mode is an ideal model, having regard to our anatomo-physiology. Indeed, what matters is not the intake per se, but the effective nutritional intake. To take a mechanical example, current combustion engines are an example of energy waste compared to an electric motor, although each benefits from the designation of motor, but their anatomy is different and therefore their performance too.
Living organisms, of which we as an example, function like factories: supply, transformation, final execution of the product, then its marketing to fulfill its dedicated function. Financially, the balance is between purchase, sale and therefore profits, but if industrial waste is excessive, if the energy used for processing is excessive, if stocks are excessive, etc. the profit is reduced by as much with sometimes even going as far as the deficit, endangering the company.
The same goes for the human factory: inputs, processing, storage, use of the final product. VG dietetics is in this antigaspi mode and therefore a rationalization of purchases, stocks, transformation, and use with the minimum of losses. We can therefore understand that between the two examples the second is more rational, more efficient and more truly ecological.
Since this mode does not correspond to the standard model, the quantitative and above all qualitative references are no more suitable. For example the myth of calcium intended to favor an industry with strong economic potential, but whose biological reality is quite different and this could be examined for many other aspects like the myth of proteins, there also intended to favor an economy which exploded in recent decades, but whose biological impact is being felt more and more in terms of costly pathologies for our social system, in addition to the pains and dramas that this generates (which are not quantified in hard cash).
PS: you are a high technician, so you could use this level of skill by applying it to any food mode as I did, which led to this choice.