Which vegetables has highest protein?

[knees22]

Which of the veggies has the highest protein count? I am quite curious to know.

 

[samgraves82]

Without looking it up, im gonna vote for peas. That's not a fact tho.

 

[stevesmi]

the pea/bean family is an obvious one.. but not everyone can digest them.. in fact they are very hard to digest

also dark green veggies.

ironically the ones highest in protein like kale are hardest to digest due their structure

 

[SteveMobsterG]

By way of an example there are a number of very high non-vegetable protein sources which do not get commonly eaten or used as protein sources. Fish eyeballs, goat, donkey, horse, snails (3oz contain 14g protein), insects (crickets have a massive 69g per 100g), shellfish, frog, beaver, porcupine.

Like the hard to digest veg it's a combination of digestibility, availability and stuff like taste, mouthfeel, cookability and so on.

By way of example (cos I asked the company who did our flavouring back when I owned a supplement company) it's perfectly easy to flavour whey and casein proteins with savoury tastes. So any flavour you get in crisps (UK) / chips (US) you can have in a tub of protein. But every time it's been tried it just didn't sell.

 

[SteveMobsterG]

It's worth adding that you don't need to go to the highest, lowest etc

 

[muskate]

peas, spinach, kale, broccoli, mushrooms, brussel sprouts, artichokes, asparagus

Those are the vegetables with the highest protein content per serving