Foods high in Alanine

Every food and ingredient below is ranked by measured Alanine content per 100 g, drawn live from 60 USDA FoodData Central measurements. Values are laboratory-analysed or survey-derived, not estimated.

Top 25 foods highest in Alanine

Ranked by Alanine per 100g, across Foundation Foods and FNDDS ingredients.

#	Food or ingredient	Source	Per 100g (G)
1	Flour, soy, defatted	Foundation Food	2.86
2	Flour, soy, full-fat	Foundation Food	2.14
3	Almond butter, creamy	Foundation Food	1.18
4	Sesame butter, creamy	Foundation Food	1.17
5	Peanut butter, creamy	Foundation Food	1.16
6	Flaxseed, ground	Foundation Food	1.08
7	Nuts, almonds, whole, raw	Foundation Food	0.98
8	Sausage, turkey, breakfast links, mild, raw	Foundation Food	0.94
9	Alaska Pollock, raw	Foundation Food	0.8258
10	Sausage, breakfast sausage, beef, pre-cooked, unprepared	Foundation Food	0.77
11	Eggs, Grade A, Large, egg yolk	Foundation Food	0.769
12	Cheese, dry white, queso seco	Foundation Food	0.75
13	Fish, pollock, raw	Foundation Food	0.75
14	Nuts, pine nuts, raw	Foundation Food	0.747
15	Eggs, Grade A, Large, egg white	Foundation Food	0.714
16	Eggs, Grade A, Large, egg whole	Foundation Food	0.667
17	Nuts, walnuts, English, halves, raw	Foundation Food	0.59
18	Restaurant, Chinese, sweet and sour pork	Foundation Food	0.473
19	Nuts, pecans, halves, raw	Foundation Food	0.438
20	Yogurt, Greek, plain, nonfat	Foundation Food	0.35
21	Restaurant, Latino, tamale, pork	Foundation Food	0.35
22	Cheese, ricotta, whole milk	Foundation Food	0.325
23	Restaurant, Latino, pupusas con frijoles (pupusas, bean)	Foundation Food	0.3
24	Mustard, prepared, yellow	Foundation Food	0.18
25	Soy milk, unsweetened, plain, shelf stable	Foundation Food	0.1394

Lowest in Alanine

For contrast — the 10 lowest non-zero values on record, per 100g.

#	Food or ingredient	Source	Per 100g (G)
51	Nectarines, raw	Foundation Food	0.015
52	Pears, raw, bartlett (Includes foods for USDA's Food Distribution Program)	Foundation Food	0.016
53	Pears, raw, bartlett	Foundation Food	0.016
54	Butter, stick, salted	Foundation Food	0.017
55	Peaches, yellow, raw	Foundation Food	0.027
56	Oranges, raw, navels (Includes foods for USDA's Food Distribution Program)	Foundation Food	0.028
57	Oranges, raw, navels	Foundation Food	0.028
58	Almond milk, unsweetened, plain, refrigerated	Foundation Food	0.029
59	Oat milk, unsweetened, plain, refrigerated	Foundation Food	0.037
60	Kiwifruit, green, raw	Foundation Food	0.048

More on Alanine

What Alanine is, how it is measured, and where these values come from.

Alanine nutrient reference →

Sourced from USDA FoodData Central — Foundation Foods; not yet through an editorial verification pass.

USDA release 2026-04-30. All values are per 100 g unless stated otherwise.