Foods high in Glycine

Every food and ingredient below is ranked by measured Glycine 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 Glycine

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

#	Food or ingredient	Source	Per 100g (G)
1	Flour, soy, defatted	Foundation Food	1.79
2	Peanut butter, creamy	Foundation Food	1.69
3	Almond butter, creamy	Foundation Food	1.65
4	Nuts, almonds, whole, raw	Foundation Food	1.43
5	Flaxseed, ground	Foundation Food	1.39
6	Flour, soy, full-fat	Foundation Food	1.35
7	Sesame butter, creamy	Foundation Food	1.22
8	Sausage, breakfast sausage, beef, pre-cooked, unprepared	Foundation Food	0.94
9	Sausage, turkey, breakfast links, mild, raw	Foundation Food	0.88
10	Nuts, pine nuts, raw	Foundation Food	0.73
11	Alaska Pollock, raw	Foundation Food	0.7047
12	Nuts, walnuts, English, halves, raw	Foundation Food	0.69
13	Fish, pollock, raw	Foundation Food	0.59
14	Nuts, pecans, halves, raw	Foundation Food	0.492
15	Eggs, Grade A, Large, egg yolk	Foundation Food	0.47
16	Cheese, dry white, queso seco	Foundation Food	0.435
17	Eggs, Grade A, Large, egg white	Foundation Food	0.422
18	Eggs, Grade A, Large, egg whole	Foundation Food	0.408
19	Restaurant, Chinese, sweet and sour pork	Foundation Food	0.4
20	Restaurant, Latino, tamale, pork	Foundation Food	0.275
21	Mustard, prepared, yellow	Foundation Food	0.25
22	Restaurant, Latino, pupusas con frijoles (pupusas, bean)	Foundation Food	0.217
23	Yogurt, Greek, plain, nonfat	Foundation Food	0.19
24	Soy milk, unsweetened, plain, shelf stable	Foundation Food	0.1413
25	Cheese, ricotta, whole milk	Foundation Food	0.135

Lowest in Glycine

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

#	Food or ingredient	Source	Per 100g (G)
51	Butter, stick, salted	Foundation Food	0.007
52	Nectarines, raw	Foundation Food	0.01
53	Pears, raw, bartlett	Foundation Food	0.015
54	Pears, raw, bartlett (Includes foods for USDA's Food Distribution Program)	Foundation Food	0.015
55	Oranges, raw, navels	Foundation Food	0.02
56	Peaches, yellow, raw	Foundation Food	0.02
57	Oranges, raw, navels (Includes foods for USDA's Food Distribution Program)	Foundation Food	0.02
58	Melons, cantaloupe, raw	Foundation Food	0.021
59	Carrots, frozen, unprepared	Foundation Food	0.031
60	Carrots, frozen, unprepared (Includes foods for USDA's Food Distribution Program)	Foundation Food	0.031

More on Glycine

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

Glycine 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.