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Nutrition · Explainer · 3 min ·

How should you spread your protein across the day? Try your own meals

Does it matter when you eat protein? For a beginner, the daily total does most of the work, and timing is a small bonus that is easy to get.

Drag your own meals into the chart to see how a dinner-heavy day compares with an even spread, and what a useful per-meal amount looks like for your body weight.

Four bars of protein per meal, one much taller than the rest, against a shaded useful range

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