Top 5 Lean Protein Foods You Should Eat

Protein is an essential part of a balanced diet, but sometimes its accompanied by more fat and calories than you want.

Fortunately, there are a variety of lean animal and plant sources of protein that will help you meet your quota.

Follow Healthline's Authority Nutrition:

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[skvlog]

1) White fleshed fish
2) plain greek yogurt
3) bean, peas, lentils
4) skinless white meat polutry
5) low fat cottage cheese

[shintsu]

used these foods when I wanted to lose weight, helped like a charm.

[Kuttanwarrior]

Highly informative!Congratulations dear Healthline!

[arth]

It's stupid to avoid skin. Skin is usually good source of omega 3 EPA/DHA, also often GLA and even some CLA which are highly beneficial fatty acids. Also, under the skin there's lot of vitamin D and some of vitamin A. Skin is also source of collagen which can be very healthy for digestive tract.

[pietro]

Thank you for getting right to it - refreshing

[BlackoutsBox]

Beans just explode my intestinal system.

[muhammadjaveed]

Here I want to add a point in European Countries Soya chunks are for Animals Not For Humans Do Research About it.

[OriginalMariAnnaWolf]

I disagree! Samon have all omegas- Wait I thought it be all meat.. eh whatever

[Matthew-obvb]

Fish is full of MERCURY tuna especially because they eat little fish, little fish are pack full of mercury. Yo Welcome..

[rikyjacho]

Thumbs down for adding sickful animal products that causes chronic diseases, thumbs up for adding healthy plant based foods