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Recently, nutritionist and Foodtrainers founder Lauren Slayton has brought us 10 healthy-ish chocolate food products and 10 foods you think are healthy and nutritious but aren’t, and this week she’s back promoting protein in surprising places.
Most of us aren’t running around low on protein. If anything, most people’s systems have protein (and other things) to spare. But with Meatless Mondays and more and more people going vegan or quasi-vegan, it’s important to know there’s protein beyond poultry. For comparison’s sake, there are 19 grams of protein in three ounces of chicken, but the average female needs about 40-50 grams of protein per day. We can all benefit from eating less meat, and when you do, now you’ll know where your protein lives. So here’s our gallery of ten foods you didn’t know contained protein:
Lauren Slayton, M.S. R.D., founder of New York City’s Foodtrainers, has more than a decade of experience as both a dietician and nutritional counselor. Offering one-on-one sessions on weight and nutrition management, Foodtrainers helps clients create, record, achieve, and maintain personal health goals. For those in need of grocery shopping guidance on a budget, Foodtrainers also offers an affordable program, Market Foodtraining. Check out Lauren’s Foodtrainers blog and follow Lauren on Twitter: @foodtrainers.
Dried fruit may contain some protein, but this already small number of protein per gram of dried fruit becomes totally insignificant, when you know the number of sugar grams and carbohydrates per gram of dried fruit. In other words, if protein is what you are after, you should pass on dried fruit and grab the nuts instead (unsalted and raw are best)