5 High Protein Vegan Snacks to Zap Your Hangry Mood
You’re annoyed and angry because your hungry – you’re hangry. It’s not exactly mealtime and you don’t want to veer off track and nose-dive deep into junk food. Now what? The following five high-protein vegan snacks are what.
Protein for Energy
Not consuming enough protein during the day is often the main cause of fatigue. Protein repairs and builds tissues and takes longer than carbohydrates to breakdown, operating as a longer-lasting energy source.
Being fatigued and hungry is perhaps the worst feeling. It makes you irritable, inconsolable, and, if you’re anything like me, more likely to give up on eating “healthy” and start justifying quick-fix junk food snacks that aren’t doing your body any favors.
As a rule, I try to avoid consuming animal protein during the day. This means, no cheese, butter, no meat, no poultry, and no fish.
But whenever I’m hungry and yearning for a snack, my mind quickly imagines the deliciously dense hunk of cheese or, alternatively, a creamy, thick yogurt. Unfortunately, neither of these fantasy snacks is vegan. Luckily, their absence from my daytime diet has pushed me to explore other, plant-based protein options.
The following five high-protein vegan snacks will boost your energy without loading empty calories and nutrition on you.
5 High Protein Vegan Snacks
1. For Chew
For an incredibly tasty vegan snack made of five simple, whole food ingredients, reach for Bearded Bros organic, raw, vegan, paleo, and gluten-free protein bars. Each 1.52-ounce serving size pack contains five grams of plant-based protein, providing 11% of the RDA.
Blueberries aren’t your thing? They have tons of flavors, like almond butter and jelly, lemon cashew, maca chocolate, and vanilla pecan.
2. For Density
Gomacro’s Protein Pleasure Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip bar is dense, in both flavor and protein. Each serving contains a whopping 11 grams of plant protein!
3. For Creamy
Forager Project organic Greek-style unsweetened plain cashew and coconut yogurt contains 10 grams of protein per serving as well as live active cultures. We like this plain one because you can sweeten it as you like, with a bit of agave or maple. Or you can add some lime and use it as a crema on your taco! The sky’s the limit.
4. For liquid-y
Mamma Chia beverages each contain four grams of protein. They’re rich in omega-3 fatty acids, contain 90 milligrams of natural caffeine (from guayusa), are an excellent source of fiber, and are organic and non-GMO.
5. For crisp
These crunchy roasted edamame beans by The Only Bean, provide the junk food experience without the junk. Each bag contains at 11 grams of pea protein! Crunchy and super snackable. I’ve also used these as a salad and soup topper! Try them out and see which flavor you like the best.
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