Carnosine And Raw Veganism

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Posted by Andrea Lewis

 Carnosine is an important nutrient that is gaining greater attention, due to dozens of research studies that have demonstrated its wide range of health benefits. There’s just one caveat: carnosine is only found as carnosine in fish, beef, poultry and pork. And yet, ironically, the animals that are considered the best sources of this nutrient do not themselves consume animals. So, where are they getting their carnosine from? The same place that vegans are getting theirs: whole foods.

Carnosine, which is concentrated in the brain and muscle tissues, is a dipeptide of the amino acids beta-alanine and histidine. And while carnosine, in its whole dipeptide form, is only found in meat, both of its constituents are found in a wide variety of plant foods. This is the most logical explanation for how animals like cows, turkeys, chickens and pigs come to have so much in their…

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