Foods high in Niacin (B3) (Canadian (CNF))

Meat and fish lead this ranking because animal tissue concentrates niacin from the protein it contains. Your body converts some amino acids directly into niacin during digestion, so foods high in protein tend toward high niacin density. This mechanism explains why the table below reads as it does.

Niacin also occurs naturally in grains, legumes, and nuts, though often in a form your body cannot access without processing. The ranking captures what your small intestine can actually use. Bear in mind that the position of a food here reflects its niacin per 100 g, not how much you would typically eat at one time.

FDA daily value: 16 mg

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Showing 1–50 of 5,243 foods

#	Food	Category	Per 100 g	% DV
1	Yeast extract spread	Vegetables and Vegetable Products	127.50 mg	797%
2	Drink, fruit flavour, powder, low calorie, vitamin C	Beverages	80.00 mg	500%
3	Energy drink, shot, sugar free	Beverages	54.86 mg	343%
4	Malted milk, chocolate flavour, enriched powder	Beverages	50.94 mg	318%
5	Malted milk, natural flavour, enriched powder	Beverages	48.59 mg	304%
6	Babyfood, cereal, wheat, with milk powder and fruit, dry	Babyfoods	42.01 mg	263%
7	Leavening agent, yeast, baker's, active, dry	Baked Products	40.20 mg	251%
8	Babyfood, cereal, wheat, dry	Babyfoods	36.38 mg	227%
9	Babyfood, cereal, rice, dry	Babyfoods	34.62 mg	216%
10	Babyfood, cereal, barley, with milk powder, dry	Babyfoods	34.29 mg	214%
11	Grains, rice bran, crude	Cereals, Grains and Pasta	33.99 mg	212%
12	Babyfood, cereal, mixed grain, dry	Babyfoods	33.24 mg	208%
13	Babyfood, cereal, mixed grain, with milk powder, dry	Babyfoods	33.20 mg	207%
14	Babyfood, snack, biscuit, mixed grain	Babyfoods	32.72 mg	205%
15	Babyfood, cereal, mixed grain, with milk powder and fruit, dry	Babyfoods	30.92 mg	193%
16	Babyfood, cereal, wheat, with milk powder, dry	Babyfoods	30.01 mg	188%
17	Babyfood, cereal, mixed grain, with fruit, dry	Babyfoods	29.28 mg	183%
18	Coffee, instant, powder, half the caffeine	Beverages	28.17 mg	176%
19	Coffee, instant, regular, powder	Beverages	28.17 mg	176%
20	Coffee, instant, decaffeinated, powder	Beverages	28.07 mg	175%
21	Babyfood, cereal, oat, with milk powder, dry	Babyfoods	27.95 mg	175%
22	Peanut flour, defatted, salted	Legumes and Legume Products	27.00 mg	169%
23	Babyfood, cereal, soya, with fruit, dry	Babyfoods	26.98 mg	169%
24	Babyfood, cereal, oat, dry	Babyfoods	26.58 mg	166%
25	Cereal, ready-to-eat, Krave, Kellogg's	Breakfast cereals	26.31 mg	164%
26	Babyfood, cereal, rice, with milk powder and fruit, dry	Babyfoods	25.88 mg	162%
27	Babyfood, cereal, rice, with milk powder, dry	Babyfoods	25.80 mg	161%
28	Beverage mix, chocolate flavour, powder, no added sugar	Beverages	25.60 mg	160%
29	Instant breakfast, powder, chocolate, sugar-free, with artificial sweetener	Beverages	25.60 mg	160%
30	Beverages, high protein powder	Beverages	25.00 mg	156%
31	Fish, salmon, red (sockeye), native, filets with skin, smoked	Finfish and Shellfish Products	22.75 mg	142%
32	Babyfood, cereal, oat, with milk powder and fruit, dry	Babyfoods	22.59 mg	141%
33	Fish, tuna, yellowfin, baked or broiled	Finfish and Shellfish Products	22.07 mg	138%
34	Coffee, instant with chicory, powder	Beverages	21.67 mg	135%
35	Cereal, ready to eat, Fibre First Multibran, Blue Menu, President's Choice	Breakfast cereals	21.30 mg	133%
36	Fish, anchovy, european, canned with olive oil, drained solids	Finfish and Shellfish Products	19.90 mg	124%
37	Cereal, ready to eat, Toasted Oats, Selection	Breakfast cereals	18.91 mg	118%
38	Fish, tuna, skipjack (aku), baked or broiled	Finfish and Shellfish Products	18.76 mg	117%
39	Cereal, ready to eat, Honey Nut O's, Selection	Breakfast cereals	18.75 mg	117%
40	Game meat, native, ringed seal, liver, raw	Lamb, Veal and Game	18.69 mg	117%
41	Fish, tuna, yellowfin, fresh, raw	Finfish and Shellfish Products	18.48 mg	115%
42	Fish, salmon, pink (humpback), poached	Finfish and Shellfish Products	17.80 mg	111%
43	Cereal, ready to eat, All Bran Original, Kellogg's	Breakfast cereals	17.73 mg	111%
44	Coffee substitute, cereal grain beverage, powder	Beverages	17.66 mg	110%
45	Snacks, crisped rice bar, almond	Snacks	17.64 mg	110%
46	Beef, liver, braised	Beef Products	17.52 mg	110%
47	Beef, liver, pan-fried	Beef Products	17.48 mg	109%
48	Seeds, sisymbrium sp. seeds, whole, dried	Nuts and Seeds	16.82 mg	105%
49	Fish, salmon, coho, wild, poached	Finfish and Shellfish Products	16.80 mg	105%
50	Fish, salmon, chum (keta), poached	Finfish and Shellfish Products	16.70 mg	104%

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Foods high in Niacin (B3) (Canadian (CNF))

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