This. Beans, lentils and friends if you're after vegetable protein.

This reads like your friends are not made of meat.

When you compare mushroom dry weight, it is more like 10-25% protein. This is without any industrial processing.

Is that relevant? You don't eat dried mushrooms, even if you start with them you have to hidrate them a lot before they are any good.

Yes, it is.

We should measure the protein density at a meaningful state for consumption.

While you can eat some mushrooms fresh and dry, their water density when fried is somewhere in the middle. Closer to dry when processed.

12x? Isn't beef approximately 2/3 protein and mushrooms 1/2 protein?

Mushrooms are about 90% water, but the non-water part is indeed roughly half protein.

Say you were going to eat 8oz of beef.

How many oz of mushrooms would one have to eat to get the same amount of protein?

>56oz according to google which lists beef at 7g/ounce and mushrooms at 0.9/ounce

Edit: legumes are more practical, green peas give you 2g/oz and peanuts can be 7g/oz shelled according to google, (though they are different proteins than the beef). Mushrooms are good for texture and some like shitaki can give the umami taste, but they aren’t a nutritional meat substitute on their own.

Like 1-3kg of non-dried mushrooms?