Question

What are the subcategories of protein?

Answer 1

Protein can be categorized into two types:

complete and incomplete proteins.

Proteins are made up of smaller units, called amino acids.

Complete proteins contain all of the amino acids your body needs and include meat, fish, poultry, dairy, and soy products.

Answer 2

proteins are made up of small units of molecules known as amino acids. The amino acids are categorized as essential and nonessential where the essential ones cannot be synthesized in our body and should be taken through diet. The two subcategories of protein are complete protein and incomplete protein.

Complete protein provides all the nine essential acids that are needed for the body.

Incomplete proteins lacks one or more essential amino acids that are required by the body.