Skip to main content
Knowledge4Policy
Knowledge for policy

Supporting policy with scientific evidence

We mobilise people and resources to create, curate, make sense of and use knowledge to inform policymaking across Europe.

Average protein content in g/100 g and % of food energy from protein in animal-derived raw foods

  • Dataset | 22 Jan 2021

From: Fineli database

Animal-derived foods

Protein content (g/100 g)

% energy from protein

Beef (average)16.948
Chicken20.244
Fish (weighted average)a18.953
Eggs (without shell)12.638
Cheese (average)23.434
Pork (average)18.939
Milk (3.5% fat, boiled)3.119
Yogurt (plain, 2.5% fat)3.022

aPike, perch, vendace (lake), baltic herring, salmon fillet, tuna, rainbow trout fillet, saithe (frozen), powan, whitefish, pollan, lavaret, zander, pike-perch

Related reading
PAGE | 17 Jun 2026
References to Meat
Meat ACS (2020), American Cancer Society, Guideline for Diet and Physical Activity for Cancer Prevention De Smet and Vossen (2016), Meat Science 120 (2016)...
Privacy statements, terms and conditions.
You will be directed to the EU Login website where you can login/register as a user. Once connected, your credentials (First name, last name, username, email) will be registered in Knowledge4policy as part of your profile, which will allow you to get involved in all Knowledge4policy communities (help is available).

You are about to navigate to an external website. Please note that we are not responsible for its content.