Calories in Aldi Foods (Ireland)

Aldi products ranked by protein density

Showing the top 50 of the 728 Aldi products that carry a comparable calorie figure, ranked by protein per 100 calories. Figures per label, sourced from Open Food Facts and tracker user logs.

What the Aldi numbers show

Across the 728 Aldi own-label products with usable label figures, the median is 3.5g of protein per 100 calories. 133 clear 10g of protein per 100 calories — about one in five, and 10g is the line Keith uses for a food that pays for its calories.

Aldi is not an outlier on that: SuperValu, Tesco and Centra all land on the same 3.5g at the median, four of the seven chains within a rounding error of each other. Lidl is the only one that breaks away, at 4.7g.

Inside Aldi it is concentrated, not spread: chicken runs a median of 17.1g of protein per 100 calories across 52 products, and only three other aisles get past 2g.

Calories run from 20 to 826 per 100g across the Aldi own-label range, a 41-fold spread, so “Aldi own-label” on its own tells you almost nothing about what a portion costs you.

What to put in the Aldi trolley

Shop it by aisle, not by brand. In Aldi the protein per calorie sits in chicken (17.1g), yogurt & yoghurt (10g) and cheese (6.3g). Past that it drops away, and the rest of the shop is a calorie decision rather than a protein one.

The single most protein-dense thing Aldi puts its own name on is Aldi The Fishmonger Tinned Tuna Steaks in Spring Water 120g, at 23.8g of protein per 100 calories against the 3.5g store median.

156 of the 728 carry 400 calories or more per 100g — the ones worth weighing rather than eyeballing.

Where this fits

The strongest of those is broken out on its own page — Aldi Chicken, 52 products — and the same category across every chain and brand is on Chicken in Ireland.

A protein-per-calorie number is only useful once you know the target, and that is how much protein a day actually works out to.

To look up one specific Aldi item rather than browse, the whole 20,000-product database is searchable on Calories in Ireland, and the same figures are in the free calorie tracker.

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