Muscle Building Diet

8 Foods That Help Build Muscle

Muscles don’t just grow in the gym—find out how to pump up your plate (and your body) with these strength-enhancing eats

Cottage Cheese

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Little Miss Muffet must have been able to pump major iron thanks to all those curds and whey—a dish more commonly known as cottage cheese. The white stuff is an excellent source of whey protein, one of the best muscle builders out there. Whey has the highest concentration of leucine, so each cup of cottage cheese delivers about 2.8 g of leucine and 28 g of protein.

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