Why doesn't protein get a daily percentage on a packaged food's nutritional information label?

That is strange. Those percentages are awful anyway. I don’t think the percentages mean anything to anyone.

To answer your secondary question: protein is healthy, and you need it to have strong muscles, but eating too much of it can be bad for your kidneys. (Which you can alleviate by drinking a lot of water, if you’re on a high protein diet.)

Protein: A %DV is required to be listed if a claim is made for protein, such as “high in protein”. Otherwise, unless the food is meant for use by infants and children under 4 years old, none is needed. Current scientific evidence indicates that protein intake is not a public health concern for adults and children over 4 years of age. (source)

So how many grams of protein is a minimum for the day?

@Ltryptophan It depends on your weight. My nutritionist recommends about 50–70 grams for me, I weigh 167 lbs.

@Ltryptophan It’s lower for women than it is for men. My dad has said to basically, take the weight you want to be (or are, I assume) and cut it in half, and then eat that much protein. But I have seen tables online that say much different and that it also varies by age, etc.

@tragiclikebowie
Don’t forget to substitute pounds for grams in that deduction, or you’ll be eating half your body weight in protein daily.

@Fyrius Oh yeah, that’s what I meant. Hah.

Oikos yogurt fat free six pack today…10 grams of yogurt per pack….20% rating….Awesome

BTW I eat FAGE, the Oikos was for someone else.

So 50G must be about right.