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13 Healthy Snacks With More Protein Than An Egg

July 5, 2016 by Julie 1 Comment

eggsTrying to up the protein in your diet to help you stay fuller, longer? If so, we’ve got 13 snacks with more protein than an egg.

Research continues to show that one of the best ways to lose weight and keep it off is to eat a diet that swaps protein for fat- and/or carbohydrate-rich foods. Protein takes longer (and more energy) to digest than either carbs or fats and protein provides essential amino acids to maintain muscle mass. In addition, new research has found that protein causes a chain-reaction in the GI tract that promotes the production of glucose that sends appetite-suppressing signals to the brains.

Bottom line: Eating a diet that provides more protein and less simple carbs or saturated fat can help you lose weight.

Since snacks contribute 25% of our daily calories (about 500 calories a day!), it’s essential that we make our snack calories count and instead of reaching for calorie-poor, calorie-rich snacks (read: candy, sweets) a healthier choice is to try protein-packed snacks.

Most of us snack on carbohydrate-rich snacks like chips, crackers, cookies, sweets and highly-processed grain-based foods. They’re tasty, convenient and available pretty much everywhere. However, with a little more thought, there’s as many protein-rich snacks that will help keep you more satisfied, reduce cravings for sweets and help you keep your total daily calories in check.

I recommend a gram of protein per pound of LEAN body mass. So, if you’re about 100 pounds of lean weight (read: muscle) then strive for 100 grams a day. While I weigh about 126 pounds, and I’m about 18 or 19% fat, so I try to get about 100 grams of protein every day to sustain 100 pounds of lean body mass.

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13 Snacks with More Protein Than An Egg

1 Medium Egg (6g)

1 Pouch Starkist Tuna (19g) with onions, chopped tomato and light mayo

1 cup Edamame (17g)

½ cup nonfat or lowfat Greek yogurt (15g) with fresh fruit

1 ounce Beef Jerky (15g)

½ cup lowfat Cottage Cheese (14g) with cherry tomatoes

3 ounces Turkey deli slices (13g) in Romaine lettuce leaves with mustard

1 Carnation Instant Breakfast Packet with Skim Milk (13g)

3 ounces Tofu (12g)

2 Scrambled eggs (12g) on Half of Whole-wheat English muffin

8 ounces skim milk (10 g)

Morningstar Farm’s Veggie Patty (10g) on ½ Whole Wheat Roll and Lettuce and condiments

12 ounce Skim Latte (10g)

¼ cup Miso (10g)

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–Julie Upton, MS, RD

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  1. Pamela Milstead says

    July 16, 2016 at 12:24 am

    Hi, I am 62 years old and in bad health and need to lose weight badly. I can’t exercise b/c I don’t have any cartilage in my knees and I have spinal stenosis. I am a diabetic and have stage 3 kidney disease. Can you you beautiful ladies help this old girl? I am 5’2″ and weigh 250.

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