List of High Protein Foods - Nut and Seed Products

List of High Protein Foods for nut and seed products as classified by the US FDA.

Protein is essential for your body to build, repair, and maintaining muscle. Therefore, protein provides many benefits for people who wish to increase their lean muscle mass or burn fat.

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) classifies a food as "High Protein" if it contains greater than 10 grams of protein per serving.

Therefore, the following high protein foods from the nut and seed products category each contain greater than 10 grams of protein per serving. Additionally, each food in this high protein foods list meets two additional criterea:

1. The food derives greater than 20% of its calories from protein, and
2. The calories from fat are less than 25% of total calories.

The nutritional information comes from the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 19.

Additionally, the FDA classifies a food as "low fat" if there are less than 3 grams of fat per serving. In the chart of high protein foods below, we denote "low fat" foods below by an asterisk (*).

List of High Protein Foods
Serving Size	Calories	Protein Grams	% of Calories From Protein	Fat Grams	% of Calories From Fat	Low Fat
Seeds, cottonseed flour, low fat (glandless)
1 oz	94	14.1	64%	0.4	4%	*
100 grams	332	49.8	64%	1.4	4%	*
4 oz	376	56.5	64%	1.6	4%	*
Seeds, cottonseed flour, partially defatted (glandless)
1 cup	337	38.5	49%	5.8	15%
1 oz	102	11.6	49%	1.8	15%	*
100 grams	359	41.0	49%	6.2	15%
4 oz	407	46.4	49%	7.0	15%
Seeds, cottonseed meal, partially defatted (glandless)
1 oz	104	13.9	57%	1.4	11%	*
100 grams	367	49.1	57%	4.8	11%
4 oz	416	55.7	57%	5.4	11%
Seeds, safflower seed meal, partially defatted
1 oz	97	10.1	44%	0.7	6%	*
100 grams	342	35.6	44%	2.4	6%	*
4 oz	388	40.4	44%	2.7	6%	*
Seeds, sesame flour, low-fat
1 oz	94	14.2	64%	0.5	5%	*
100 grams	333	50.1	64%	1.8	5%	*
4 oz	378	56.9	64%	2.0	5%	*
Seeds, sunflower seed flour, partially defatted
1 cup	209	30.8	63%	1.0	4%	*
1 oz	92	13.6	63%	0.5	4%	*
100 grams	326	48.1	63%	1.6	4%	*
4 oz	370	54.5	63%	1.8	4%	*

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