List of High Protein Foods - Sweets

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List of High Protein Foods for sweets 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 sweets 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
Gelatin desserts, dry mix, reduced calorie, with aspartame
100 grams 198 15.7 34% 0.0 0% *
4 oz 225 17.8 34% 0.0 0% *
Gelatin desserts, dry mix, reduced calorie, with aspartame, added phosphorus, potassium, sodium, vitamin C
1 oz 98 15.7 68% 0.0 0% *
100 grams 345 55.3 68% 0.0 0% *
4 oz 391 62.7 68% 0.0 0% *
Gelatin desserts, dry mix, reduced calorie, with aspartame, no added sodium
1 oz 98 15.7 68% 0.0 0% *
100 grams 345 55.3 68% 0.0 0% *
4 oz 391 62.7 68% 0.0 0% *
Gelatin desserts,, KRAFT, JELL-O Brand Sugar Free Low Calorie Gelatin Dessert Strawberry, with aspartame and acesulfame potassium sweetener, powder
1 oz 94 16.1 73% 0.0 0% *
100 grams 333 56.8 73% 0.1 0% *
4 oz 378 64.4 73% 0.1 0% *
Gelatins, dry powder, unsweetened
1 oz 95 24.3 109% 0.0 0% *
1 package 94 24.0 109% 0.0 0% *
100 grams 335 85.6 109% 0.1 0% *
4 oz 380 97.1 109% 0.1 0% *
Cocoa, dry powder, unsweetened, HERSHEY'S European Style Cocoa
100 grams 400 20.0 21% 10.0 22%  
4 oz 454 22.7 21% 11.3 22%  


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