I dont really eat many canned ones except for baked beans in tomato sauce but I cook often with dried beans and they are really good. I usually soak them overnight or for 24 hours. I don’t see how beans aren’t nutritious, they are easily more balanced than red meat. They have iron, zinc, copper, folate, b vitamins and also have carbs as part of the package. Even beans on their own are a very balanced meal compared to a piece of beef which is pure protein, b vits, zinc, selenium and not much else. No fibre or carbs.
The only reason you would associate meat with a high quality protein is because it used to be considered high status to eat meat because of you being born after the war and the generation that lived through the wars would associate meat with status but that is irrelevant to the biological reality
biologically speaking beans are a less inflammatory protein with a better amino acid composition than animal meat, animal meat and dairy (but less so dairy) is inflammatory, peat talked about inflammatory muscle meats. Also when we look it up these amino acids always suppress thyroid function.
Beans are also high in lysine which lowers serotonin. Peat spoke all about how good dopamine is at making us happy. Most animal products have a lot of tryptophan which rasies serotonin. Even dairy to a degree. Plant foods just dont have this, in fact looking at the amino acid composition (serotonin is made from tryptophan) it must be plant foods that make us happiest because they contain less ingredients for us to make neurotransmitters that contribute to us being miserable
Also a lot of people gain weight on peat eating, maybe plant based would be better for that since you technically get more minerals and vitamins per calorie in plant food
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