In fact one pound of muscle is about 72% water and contains about 100 grams of protein. This being the case, shouldn't the emphases be on consuming more water to increase muscle size? This also is overly simplistic.
They can actually make your chicken too mushy after two hours. This is because the enzymes break up the muscle fibers. If you add any of the following ingredients to your marinade you will want to make sure that you only marinate the chicken for 30 minutes to 1 hour: fresh pineapples, fresh melons, figs, and papaya. In some countries, cooks wrap their chicken in papaya leaves to tenderize them.
Ideally, with a valuable piece of meat, like ribs, you want to marinate for one day to 12 hours. It takes salt 24 hours to penetrate the meat to one inch (2.5cm) deep. The rest of the ingredients are mainly used as a flavorful surface treatment. Double your recipe if you have more than five lbs. of ribs.