Calories in Beef (Ireland)

Beef ranked by protein density

Showing the top 50 of the 493 beef 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 beef numbers show

493 of the 497 beef products carry 20 calories or more per 100g, which is the floor below which protein per 100 calories stops being a real number. Across those the median is 8.7g of protein per 100 calories. 215 clear 10g of protein per 100 calories — about one in two, and 10g is the line Keith uses for a food that pays for its calories.

Calories run from 20 to 900 per 100g inside this one group, a 45-fold spread, so “beef” on its own tells you almost nothing about what a portion costs you.

Own-brand is not the compromise here. The supermarket own-label median is 12.1g of protein per 100 calories across 331 products, against 4.7g for the 162 name-brand ones.

The chains are not equal on this: Lidl runs a median of 13.5g of protein per 100 calories across its 195 own-label beef products, Centra 8.2g across 32.

What to actually pick

On the numbers the pick is Lidl Birchwood Deli Choice 5 Peppered Topside Of Beef Slices 130g: 21.8g of protein per 100 calories, 2.5 times the 8.7g median for the group.

29 of the 493 carry 400 calories or more per 100g — the ones worth weighing rather than eyeballing.

Where this fits

That chain-by-chain gap is why the biggest ranges get their own page: Lidl Beef covers 195 products, and everything else Lidl sells sits alongside it.

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 product rather than the whole group, the 20,000-product database is searchable on Calories in Ireland, and the same figures are built into the free calorie tracker.

Real beef products with a photo

Real barcode-matched products with a confirmed photo — the same rule as Calories in Ireland: a photo only shows where we have a confirmed Open Food Facts match, never a guessed stock image.

Dunnes Stores Irish Beef Roasted Topside

20.1g protein / 100kcal

Lidl Birchwood Roast Beef Topside 5 Slices 130g

18.5g protein / 100kcal

Dunnes Stores Stir Fry Irish Beef Strips 325g

17.5g protein / 100kcal

Dunnes Stores Irish Beef New York Style Pastrami Wafer Thin Slices

16g protein / 100kcal

Tesco 4 British Corned Beef Slices 110g

11.4g protein / 100kcal

Dunnes Stores 12 Irish Beef Meatballs 300g

11.3g protein / 100kcal

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