Foods sorted by methionine content (g) divided by protein (g).
| Food |
methionine (g)/protein (g) |
| Seaweed, spirulina, dried |
0.0200 |
| Nuts, pecans |
0.0200 |
| Millet, cooked |
0.0199 |
| Seeds, pumpkin and squash seed kernels, roasted, without salt |
0.0199 |
| Nuts, walnuts, black, dried |
0.0194 |
| Mushrooms, brown, italian, or crimini, raw |
0.0192 |
| Avocados, raw, all commercial varieties |
0.0190 |
| Nuts, coconut meat, raw |
0.0186 |
| Spices, mustard seed, ground |
0.0185 |
| Spinach, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt |
0.0185 |
| Oats |
0.0185 |
| Sweet potato, cooked, baked in skin, flesh, without salt |
0.0184 |
| Broccoli, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt |
0.0181 |
| Nuts, cashew nuts, dry roasted, without salt added |
0.0179 |
| Bread, pumpernickel |
0.0178 |
| Nuts, pistachio nuts, dry roasted, without salt added |
0.0178 |
| Wheat flour, white, all-purpose, enriched, bleached |
0.0177 |
| Spelt, uncooked |
0.0177 |
| Wheat, KAMUT khorasan, uncooked |
0.0173 |
| Amaranth grain, uncooked |
0.0167 |
| Bread, rye |
0.0164 |
| Pasta, whole-wheat, cooked |
0.0162 |
| Sorghum grain |
0.0159 |
| Potatoes, baked, flesh, without salt |
0.0158 |
| Triticale flour, whole-grain |
0.0156 |
