Palta (avocado) is grown throughout Chile. Tomatoes and onions are other overwhelmingly popular and readily available vegetables. The nation's most important crops include grapes, plums, apples, pears, onions, corn, peaches, garlic, asparagus and beans.
The truth lies somewhere in the middle. It is easy to get enough protein on a vegan diet if you eat multiple servings of high-lysine foods (legumes, seitan, amaranth, quinoa, pistachios, and pumpkin seeds) each day. But there are many vegans who are probably not eating enough high-lysine foods.
1 If you are a vegan, you should make sure that you incorporate plenty of beans and soy into your diet to make sure that you get enough of the amino acid lysine. 2  Lacto and lacto-ovo vegetarians appear generally to meet protein and lysine requirements with their diets.