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Alternative to paying 2 to 4 times the price of wheat for the nutritionally superior foods, buckwheat, amaranth, and quinoa.

I propose a blend of 75% wheat flour (10% protein content), 25% pinto bean flour, on a weight basis, to provide for a good distribution of essential amino acids. In volume terms, 1 Cup of wheat flour would be added to about 1/4 C of pinto beans being the density of pinto beans whole, including even with air space around the beans, is more than for flour (the volume of pinto bean flour would differ). Note the comparison with buckwheat below as well as with a common cut of beef having the same total protein content. This blended flour/bean blend should cost no more than 20% over the cost of wheat flour, offering a considerable savings over buckwheat which costs about twice that of wheat.

Price calculation, assuming pinto beans cost 50% more than wheat:

Wheat contribution: 75% X 1
Bean contribution: 25% X 1.5
Sum = 1.125~1.13

This translates to a cost of little more than 10% over wheat on its own.

Amino Acid	Wheat Flour	Pinto Beans	75/25 Wheat/Beans	Buckwheat Flour	Beef, Bottom-Round
---	100g	100g	100g	100g	50g
Total	9.7g	21g	13g	13g	13g
Lysine	260mg	1400mg	550mg	640mg	1200mg
Tryptophan	110mg	240mg	140mg	180mg	90mg
Isoleucine	330mg	870mg	470mg	470mg	620mg
Leucine	630mg	1600mg	870mg	790mg	1100mg
Valine	390mg	1000mg	540mg	650mg	680mg
Histidine	200mg	560mg	290mg	290mg	440mg
Methionine	150mg	260mg	180mg	160mg	360mg
Phenylalanine	400mg	1100mg	580mg	500mg	540mg
Threonine	260mg	810mg	400mg	480mg	550mg

In an opposing ratio, in still allowing wheat flour to augment the amino acid profile of pinto beans, I propose a new mixture for refried beans, specifically a 3:1 ratio by weight of beans to wheat flour. The end result is moderately lighter, creamier, and more mild in flavor. Appearance:

I recommend this mixture when eaten alone or with pico de gallo and not stuffed in a flour tortilla. Since Ben Bernanke of the Federal Reserve aims to crush our country's economy by forcing inflation on us, not to mention the additional harm in penalizing those who short sell the stock market in being on the correct side of fair value and penalizing savers by not allowing them reasonable bank interest, bread and flour tortillas have become too expensive and so incorporating flour in refried beans makes good monetary sense. The ratios of wheat flour to beans on mixed bases would be:
1 C wheat flour : 2 1/6 C raw pinto beans
1 C wheat flour : 6 C boiled pinto beans

The two primary suggestions made above are also posted at Free Ideas To Society

References:
Wheat Flour, enriched, unbleached, 10% protein
Pinto Beans, raw
Buckwheat Flour, Whole Groat
Beef, round, bottom round, separable lean and fat, trimmed to 1/8" fat, all grades, cooked, roasted

Wheat and Pinto Bean Flour Blend Amino Acid Profile Comparison