Top 10 · Updated October 2026

Highest-Protein Ingredients

Ingredients: typically 4.4 g of protein per 100 g (median of 12 products). The ingredients with the most protein per 100 g. Useful if you are trying to increase your protein intake. We checked 11 ingredients with complete data.

1

Turkey Rashers

Mattessons · 200g

d 120 kcal 1.1 g sugar 23 g protein 2.5 g fat

Also: No additives
2

Swedish style meatballs

Quorn Foods · 300g

c NOVA 4 130 kcal 0.7 g sugar 13 g protein 4.6 g fat
3

Cod & Chorizo Fishcakes

Deluxe

c 137 kcal 1.4 g sugar 9.5 g protein 8.4 g fat
4

Chicken and brocolli bake

Marks & Spencer

a 99 kcal 1.5 g sugar 7.7 g protein 2.3 g fat

Also: No additives
5

Diamond Truffles

Toblerone

e NOVA 4 562 kcal 52 g sugar 5.2 g protein 36 g fat

Also: Palm oil free
6

Coconut milk powder

Bwfo · 125g

d NOVA 4 578 kcal 6.5 g sugar 3.5 g protein 42 g fat

Also: Palm oil free · No additives
7

Zlaty klas

Dr.Oetker · 40g

NOVA 4 90 kcal 11 g sugar 2.6 g protein 1.3 g fat

Also: No additives
8

Sweet potato katsu curry

Tesco

c NOVA 4 130 kcal 6 g sugar 2 g protein 4 g fat

Also: Palm oil free
9

Riced Cauliflower

Great Value

a NOVA 3 20 kcal 1.3 g sugar 1.3 g protein 0 g fat

Also: Palm oil free · Vegan · Vegetarian
10

Xylitol

Total Sweet

c NOVA 4 51 kcal 10.2 g sugar 0.6 g protein 0.5 g fat

Also: Palm oil free · Vegan · Vegetarian

How we built this list

We ranked all published ingredients on Foodmetria that have a photo and the required nutrition data, using values per 100 g from the product label. Ties are broken by Nutri-Score and by how often shoppers scan the product. Rankings update automatically as label data changes. Read our methodology.

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