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Highest protein per 100 calories

Foods ranked by protein density — grams of protein per 100 kcal.

1267 ranked foods

#Foodg / 100 kcal
401Lima beans, cooked
6.8
402Parmesan cheese, grated
6.8
403Parmesan, grated
6.8
404Port du Salut cheese
6.8
405Goat cheese, hard
6.8
406Seaweed, wakame
6.7
407Wakame seaweed, raw
6.7
408Black beans, cooked
6.7
409Egg, scrambled
6.7
410Caraway cheese
6.7
411Green peas, raw
6.7
412Mung beans, cooked
6.7
413Lentil soup
6.7
414Moth beans, cooked
6.7
415Cranberry beans, canned
6.7
416Snap peas, raw
6.7
417Snow peas, raw
6.7
418Black-eyed peas, cooked
6.7
419Navy beans, canned
6.7
420Teriyaki sauce
6.7
421Black beans, canned
6.6
422Green peas, frozen, cooked
6.6
423Camembert cheese
6.6
424Cow's milk, 2%
6.6
425Milk, 2% reduced fat
6.6
How this is calculatedformula · basis · source

Formula: protein_per_100g ÷ energy_kcal_per_100g × 100

Basis: Protein grams per 100 kcal (energy density basis).

Source: USDA FoodData Central. Foods missing this value are not ranked (missing ≠ zero).