Cereals are the major source of protein in the Indian diet. In recent years, due to declining preference the consumption of cereals is decreasing in spite of increasing output. Therefore, the country needs to further increase the production and encourage the intake of pulses in order to meet the nutritional requirements of the population, specifically in terms of protein consumption. This paper discusses the trends in pulses and protein consumption over the years. It uses a seemingly unrelated regression estimation (SURE) framework to study the price and income effect on protein from different sources: cereals and pulses (plant sources), milk and milk products (dairy sources), and animal sources such as eggs, fish and meat, and other sources of protein.