Foods richest in Niacin (B3)

Tiny oily fish usually sold salt-cured and packed in oil, where months of curing dissolves the flesh into an intensely savoury…

124% of the Daily Value per 100 g

The pectoral muscle of the chicken, made up largely of fast-twitch fibres, which is why it is pale and low in fat compared with…

86% of the Daily Value per 100 g

Almost always skipjack, a small fast-growing tuna, cooked and canned in water or oil. It is a distinctly different product from…

83% of the Daily Value per 100 g

The metabolic and storage organ of cattle, and consequently one of the most nutrient-concentrated foods in the human diet by a…

82% of the Daily Value per 100 g

Botanically a legume that ripens underground, not a tree nut, though its fat content and culinary use put it with the nuts. The…

75% of the Daily Value per 100 g

Ground dried Capsicum annuum peppers, ranging from sweet to hot and sometimes smoked over oak. The USDA entry is per 100 g of the…

63% of the Daily Value per 100 g

The white pectoral muscle of the domestic turkey, leaner and larger-grained than chicken breast. Fresh roasting joints and…

62% of the Daily Value per 100 g

A small, soft organ meat with a milder flavour and finer texture than beef liver, which is why it dominates pâtés and parfaits.…

61% of the Daily Value per 100 g

The hulled seed of industrial hemp, a cannabis variety bred to contain negligible THC. The USDA reference entry is for the hulled…

57% of the Daily Value per 100 g

A fast-swimming oily fish with dark, strongly flavoured flesh that spoils quickly and is therefore often smoked or canned. It is…

57% of the Daily Value per 100 g

Tiny seeds from a Mexican member of the mint family that form a thick gel when hydrated, because of soluble mucilage in the seed…

55% of the Daily Value per 100 g

Dried ground fruit of hot Capsicum annuum varieties. The USDA entry is per 100 g of the dried spice; a shake over a dish is well…

54% of the Daily Value per 100 g

The great majority of salmon sold worldwide, raised in sea pens on formulated feed. It is consistently fattier than wild salmon,…

54% of the Daily Value per 100 g

The hulled kernels of the sunflower, one of the densest common food sources of vitamin E. The USDA reference entry is for the…

52% of the Daily Value per 100 g

An anadromous fish that feeds at sea and returns to fresh water to spawn. Its pink flesh comes from astaxanthin accumulated…

49% of the Daily Value per 100 g

A pseudocereal seed from a plant in the rhubarb family, unrelated to wheat and free of gluten. The USDA reference entry is for…

44% of the Daily Value per 100 g

A small muscle running along the inside of the spine that does almost no work, making it the leanest and most tender cut on the…

42% of the Daily Value per 100 g

Rice with the bran and germ left intact, removing only the inedible hull. The USDA reference entry is for raw grain, and rice…

41% of the Daily Value per 100 g

Meat from deer, whether wild-harvested or farmed. Because the animals are active and rarely grain-finished, the carcass carries…

40% of the Daily Value per 100 g

Meat from sheep slaughtered under about a year old, with a distinctive flavour that comes largely from branched-chain fatty acids…

39% of the Daily Value per 100 g

The grey-green leaf of Salvia officinalis, used fresh or dried and traditionally paired with fatty meats. The USDA entry is per…

36% of the Daily Value per 100 g

Dark leg meat, richer in myoglobin, fat and connective tissue than breast because these are the muscles the bird actually uses.…

35% of the Daily Value per 100 g

Small schooling fish canned whole with their soft, edible bones intact. Being short-lived plankton feeders low in the food chain,…

33% of the Daily Value per 100 g

Beef trimmings ground to a uniform texture and sold by lean-to-fat ratio, most commonly between 70% and 95% lean. The ratio is…

32% of the Daily Value per 100 g