Calories in Aldi Chicken (Ireland)

Aldi chicken ranked by protein density

Showing the top 50 of the 52 Aldi chicken products that carry a comparable calorie figure, ranked by protein per 100 calories.

What Aldi's chicken looks like next to everyone else's

Median across the 52 Aldi chicken products with usable figures is 17.1g of protein per 100 calories. That is ahead of the 6.2g median for chicken across every chain and brand in the database, which is 1,379 products.

37 clear 10g of protein per 100 calories — most of them, and 10g is the line Keith uses for a food that pays for its calories.

Of the seven chains carrying enough chicken to compare, Aldi has the strongest own-label range; Spar the weakest.

The best Aldi option here reaches 22.9g of protein per 100 calories, which is as high as anything in the whole chicken group gets.

Calories run from 86 to 477 per 100g across the Aldi chicken range, a 6-fold spread, so “Aldi chicken” on its own tells you almost nothing about what a portion costs you.

What to pick in Aldi

Most of this group already clears the benchmark, so the decision is price and taste rather than macros. Aldi Everyday Essentials Cooked Chicken Breast Mini Fillets 170g tops the table at 22.9g of protein per 100 calories.

1 of the 52 carry 400 calories or more per 100g — the ones worth weighing rather than eyeballing.

Where this fits

Chicken across every Irish store is the wider group this sits in, and everything else Aldi sells is the other half of the comparison.

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.

For one specific item rather than a shortlist, the 20,000-product database is searchable on Calories in Ireland and built into the free calorie tracker.

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