Plant Proteins Tier List

The best whole-food plant protein here — folate off the charts.

Fermented, fibrous, and nearly complete. The thinking person's soy.

Fungus you eat on purpose. Weirdly complete, weirdly inoffensive.

Defatted soy flour doing a ground-beef impression. 52g protein per 100g dry.

The calcium-set kind is basically a calcium supplement that happens to contain protein.

Wheat gluten cosplaying as meat — protein quantity without the quality.

Deactivated yeast with a main-character complex. Cheesy without the cheese.

Dal's quiet overachiever. Folate for days.

The Mediterranean bar snack with a bodybuilder's protein count.

Soup's hardest worker. 8g fiber doing the quiet heavy lifting.

The bean everyone skipped as a kid. The potassium numbers say they were wrong.

Soybeans that went feral. Stringy, stinky, superb.

The dessert bean that moonlights as a protein source.

The ancient world's protein shake. Big bean energy, literally.

Caribbean staple, criminally underrated elsewhere. Gandules go hard.