Getting all your daily protein can be a challenge. Using prepackaged protein foods in addition to shakes and powders can help you get in your baseline gram per pound of bodyweight each day.
If you’re a 200-pound bodybuilder, here’s the amount of some bodybuilding foods, in no particular order, that you’d have to consume to get 200 grams of protein if you were to depend on that one item for your daily requirement.
FOOD
QUANTITY
Chicken breast
30 oz
Turkey breast
28 oz
Canned tuna
30 oz
Fresh whitefish
38 oz
Lean beef tenderloin
34 oz
Lean hamburger (90%)
34 oz
Cottage cheese (low fat)
57 oz
Whole eggs
33 large eggs
Nonfat milk
200 oz
Whey protein powder
About 10 scoops
NOTE: For the poultry, meat and fish, the values given are precooked weight.
