Foods high in Serine

Every food and ingredient below is ranked by measured Serine 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 Serine

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

#	Food or ingredient	Source	Per 100g (G)
1	Flour, soy, defatted	Foundation Food	2.7
2	Flour, soy, full-fat	Foundation Food	2.07
3	Peanut butter, creamy	Foundation Food	1.42
4	Cheese, dry white, queso seco	Foundation Food	1.37
5	Eggs, Grade A, Large, egg yolk	Foundation Food	1.29
6	Sesame butter, creamy	Foundation Food	1.15
7	Flaxseed, ground	Foundation Food	1.14
8	Almond butter, creamy	Foundation Food	1.06
9	Nuts, almonds, whole, raw	Foundation Food	0.99
10	Nuts, pine nuts, raw	Foundation Food	0.983
11	Eggs, Grade A, Large, egg whole	Foundation Food	0.919
12	Eggs, Grade A, Large, egg white	Foundation Food	0.857
13	Nuts, walnuts, English, halves, raw	Foundation Food	0.78
14	Sausage, turkey, breakfast links, mild, raw	Foundation Food	0.7
15	Alaska Pollock, raw	Foundation Food	0.5725
16	Sausage, breakfast sausage, beef, pre-cooked, unprepared	Foundation Food	0.55
17	Fish, pollock, raw	Foundation Food	0.54
18	Nuts, pecans, halves, raw	Foundation Food	0.54
19	Yogurt, Greek, plain, nonfat	Foundation Food	0.533
20	Restaurant, Chinese, sweet and sour pork	Foundation Food	0.38
21	Cheese, ricotta, whole milk	Foundation Food	0.365
22	Restaurant, Latino, pupusas con frijoles (pupusas, bean)	Foundation Food	0.32
23	Restaurant, Latino, tamale, pork	Foundation Food	0.245
24	Mustard, prepared, yellow	Foundation Food	0.223
25	Milk, nonfat, fluid, with added vitamin A and vitamin D (fat free or skim)	Foundation Food	0.202

Lowest in Serine

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

#	Food or ingredient	Source	Per 100g (G)
51	Pears, raw, bartlett (Includes foods for USDA's Food Distribution Program)	Foundation Food	0.016
52	Nectarines, raw	Foundation Food	0.016
53	Pears, raw, bartlett	Foundation Food	0.016
54	Almond milk, unsweetened, plain, refrigerated	Foundation Food	0.02
55	Peaches, yellow, raw	Foundation Food	0.031
56	Oranges, raw, navels	Foundation Food	0.032
57	Oranges, raw, navels (Includes foods for USDA's Food Distribution Program)	Foundation Food	0.032
58	Carrots, frozen, unprepared (Includes foods for USDA's Food Distribution Program)	Foundation Food	0.033
59	Carrots, frozen, unprepared	Foundation Food	0.033
60	Melons, cantaloupe, raw	Foundation Food	0.034

More on Serine

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

Serine 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.