Calories in Aldi Chocolate (Ireland)

Aldi chocolate ranked by protein density

Showing the top 48 of the 48 Aldi chocolate products that carry a comparable calorie figure, ranked by protein per 100 calories.

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

Median across the 48 Aldi chocolate products with usable figures is 1.4g of protein per 100 calories. That is level with the 1.3g median for chocolate across all 2,031 products in the database, chains and name brands together.

8 clear 10g of protein per 100 calories — about one in six, and 10g is the line Keith uses for a food that pays for its calories.

Of the five chains carrying enough chocolate to compare, Aldi has the strongest own-label range; Centra the weakest.

The best Aldi option here reaches 13.6g of protein per 100 calories; somewhere in the wider chocolate group something reaches 16g, so Aldi is not where the ceiling is.

Calories run from 54 to 580 per 100g across the Aldi chocolate range, an 11-fold spread, so “Aldi chocolate” on its own tells you almost nothing about what a portion costs you.

What to pick in Aldi

Most of what is sold as chocolate is not a protein food. The 8 that clear 10g per 100 calories sit at the top of the table and are the exceptions, not the rule.

26 of the 48 carry 400 calories or more per 100g — the ones worth weighing rather than eyeballing.

Where this fits

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

This is the aisle that quietly wrecks a calorie target, which is the whole point of where the calories actually hide.

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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