Vegetarians & Protein - Cooked Food Edition

 

This is Part 2 of 3 in the Vegetarians & Protein series. This series reflects some of the cooked foods we eat as a ovo-pesco vegetarian family (meaning we eat fish and eggs but no other animal products). For more details on the protein content of other non animal product foods that may be available to you click on the links below the table. This section of the series gives the protein content of some of the cooked foods we eat. For information on the protein content of the raw foods that we eat see the previous post - Vegetarians & Protein - Raw Food Edition.

Protein Content of Cooked Foods We Eat

Description	Weight (g)	Amount	Protein Content (g)
Beans, black, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt	172	1 cup	15.24
Beans, Cowpeas (Blackeyes), immature seeds,  boiled, without salt	165	1 cup	5.23
Beans, kidney beans, red, mature seeds, canned	256	1 cup	13.44
Beans, Kidney beans, red, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt	177	1 cup	15.35
Beets, canned, drained solids	170	1 cup	1.55
Breadfruit	100		1.07
Broccoli, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	156	1 cup	4.65
Beets, cooked, boiled, drained	170	1 cup	2.86
Beets, cooked, boiled, drained	50	1 beet	0.84
Cabbage, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	150	1 cup	1.53
Carrots, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	156	1 cup	1.70
Carrots, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	146	1 cup	1.74
Cashew nuts, dry roasted, without salt added	100		20.17
Cauliflower, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	180	1 cup	2.90
Celery, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	150	1 cup	1.25
Corn, sweet, yellow, canned, vacuum pack, regular pack	210	1 cup	5.06
Corn, sweet, yellow, frozen, kernels cut off cob, boiled, drained, without salt	164	1 cup	4.51
Corn, sweet, yellow, frozen, kernels on cob, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	63	1 ear	1.96
Lentils, mature seeds, cooked, boiled, without salt	198	1 cup	17.86
Onions, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	210	1 cup	2.86
Potatoes, boiled, cooked in skin, flesh, without salt	136	1 potato	2.54
Potatoes, boiled, cooked without skin, flesh, without salt	135	1 potato	2.31
Potatoes, boiled, cooked without skin, flesh, without salt	156	1 cup	2.67
Pumpkin, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	245	1 cup	1.76
Spinach, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt	180	1 cup	5.35
Sweet potato, cooked, boiled, without skin, without salt	156	1 potato	2.57
Tomatoes, red, ripe, raw, year round average	180	1 cup	1.53
Tomatoes, red, ripe, raw, year round average	17	1 cherry tomato	0.14
Tomatoes, red, ripe, raw, year round average	123	1 tomato	1.05

For more foods and their protein content visit the links below:

annecollins.com, weightlossforall.com, fatfreekitchen.com, iloveindia.com, highproteinfoods.net

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• Vegetarians & Protein - Raw Food Edition

• Vegetarians & Protein - Other Foods Edition