  We re-analyze the flavor decomposition of the pion-nucleon $\sigma$-term in
the framework of baryon chiral perturbation to fourth order. We employ a
covariant and the heavy baryon framework including also the low-lying decuplet.
Using only continuum data, we find a small strangeness content of the proton.
The uncertainties are, however, large and might be overcome by dedicated
lattice QCD calculations.
