High Protein Beans: Soybeans Have 31 g a Cup
High protein beans ranked by grams per cup: boiled soybeans 31.3 g, lupins 25.8 g, edamame 18.5 g, and black, pinto and kidney beans about 15 g.
Claire Donovan · · 6 min readTopic
Vegetarian, vegan and low-carb eating
Going vegetarian, vegan or low-carb changes where your protein comes from. It doesn't change how much you need.
Lentils, tofu, eggs, Greek yogurt and tempeh can cover most days, and each idea here comes with calories and protein per serving. Log a meat-free week in Calsa and you'll see whether it still hit your protein.
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High Protein Vegetables, Ranked by Grams per Cup
Cooked edamame has 18.5 g of protein per cup, green peas 8.6 g, spinach 5.3 g. See high protein vegetables by cup and by calorie, plus what 25 g takes.
Claire Donovan · · 4 min read
Key number18.5 gprotein in a cooked cup of edamame
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