120 butter products sold in Irish supermarkets, ranked by protein per 100 calories.
| Product | kcal/100g | Protein/100kcal | Carbs/100kcal | Fat/100kcal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avonmore Butter Milk 1 Litre | 61 | 5.6g | 8.2g | 4.9g |
| Lidl Deluxe Green Vegetable Medley with Seasoned Butter 250g | 108 | 4g | 4.5g | 6.2g |
| Costa Coffee White Toast (without butter) | 251 | 3.9g | 18.6g | 1g |
| Lidl Deluxe All Butter Scones 260g | 348 | 2.6g | 15.9g | 2.7g |
| Lidl Deluxe Butter Cheese Puff Pastry Mini Twist Snack 90g | 547 | 2.6g | 7.9g | 6.4g |
| Tesco 8 Butter Brioche Rolls | 346 | 2.5g | 15.3g | 3g |
| Warburtons 8 Butter Brioche Rolls 280g | 341 | 2.5g | 15.5g | 3.1g |
| Lidl Snaktastic All Butter Cheese Twists 150g | 500 | 2.4g | 10.6g | 5.2g |
| St Pierre 8 Brioche Rolls with Butter | 350 | 2.3g | 14.5g | 3.3g |
| Lidl Chef Select Herb Baguettes Filled With Herb Butter 3 x 175g | 305 | 2.2g | 12.7g | 4.4g |
| Costa Coffee All Butter Sultana Scone | 355 | 2g | 15.3g | 3.3g |
| Jacob's Butter Puffs 200g | 501 | 1.9g | 11.7g | 5g |
| CONNACHT GOLD HALF FAT BUTTER | 384 | 1.8g | 0.1g | 10.4g |
| Jacobs Butter Puffs | 505 | 1.8g | 11.7g | 5g |
| Dunnes Stores Simply Better All Butter Cinnamon Swirls 400g | 350 | 1.6g | 11.3g | 5.3g |
| Kerrygold Traditional Irish Butter Shortbread 50g | 519 | 1.5g | 11g | 5.5g |
| St Pierre French Bakery 10 All Butter Mini Pains Au Chocolat | 462 | 1.5g | 10.5g | 5.7g |
| Kerrygold Butter Shortbread 150g | 513 | 1.4g | 12.1g | 5.3g |
| Lidl Deluxe All Butter Shortbread 150g | 494 | 1.3g | 12.5g | 5g |
| St Pierre 6 Belgian Waffles with Butter | 434 | 1.3g | 12g | 5.1g |
| St Pierre Belgian Waffle with Butter | 434 | 1.3g | 12g | 5.1g |
| St Pierre Belgian Waffles with Butter 20 x 90g | 455 | 1.3g | 11.6g | 5.3g |
| Lidl Deluxe Scottish Selection All Butter Classic Shortbread Rounds 160g | 520 | 1.2g | 11.1g | 5.6g |
| Lidl Deluxe All Butter Caramel Sticks 150g | 512 | 1.1g | 13.4g | 4.5g |
| Tesco All Butter Shortbread Fingers 210g | 516 | 1.1g | 11.4g | 5.4g |
| Lidl Deluxe All Butter Chocolate Chip Shortbread Rounds 150g | 517 | 1g | 11.8g | 5.3g |
| Lidl Deluxe All Butter Shortbread Rounds | 535 | 1g | 11.2g | 5.7g |
| Dunnes Stores Simply Better All Butter Scottish Shortbread with Chocolate Chips 150g | 515 | 0.8g | 12g | 5.4g |
| Centra Irish Creamery Butter 227g | 740 | 0.7g | 0.7g | 11.1g |
| Centra Irish Creamy Butter 454g | 740 | 0.7g | 0.7g | 11.1g |
| Lidl Deluxe Butter Fudge with Ben Bracken Highland Whisky 150g | 427 | 0.3g | 18.2g | 2.8g |
| Flora Light Butter 550g | 252 | 0.2g | 0.2g | 11.1g |
| Kerrygold Lighter Unsalted Reduced Fat Irish Butter 250g | 563 | 0.2g | 0.4g | 10.8g |
| Aldi Cowbelle British Salted Butter 250g | 741 | 0.1g | 0.1g | 11.1g |
| Aldi Cowbelle British Unsalted Butter 250g | 754 | 0.1g | 0.2g | 11g |
| Aldi Meadow Flower Butter 500g | 587 | 0.1g | 0.2g | 11g |
| Aldi Nordpak Lighter Butter Spread 500g | 515 | 0.1g | 0g | 11.1g |
| Aldi Specially Selected West Country Butter with Sea Salt Crystals 250g | 745 | 0.1g | 0.1g | 11g |
| Avonmore Butter | 734 | 0.1g | 0.1g | 11g |
| Avonmore Irish butter | 752 | 0.1g | 0.1g | 11g |
| Avonmore Pure Irish Butter | 734 | 0.1g | 0.1g | 11g |
| Avonmore Pure Irish Unsalted Butter | 752 | 0.1g | 0.1g | 11g |
| Avonmore Unsalted Butter 227g | 752 | 0.1g | 0.1g | 11g |
| Dairygold Butter Churned Cream Mini Packs 150 x 7g | 726 | 0.1g | 0.1g | 11.2g |
| Dairygold Butter Sticks 3 x 100g (300g) | 712 | 0.1g | 0.1g | 11.2g |
| Dairygold Original Irische Butter | 748 | 0.1g | 0.1g | 11g |
| Dairygold Plant Based Butter | 728 | 0.1g | 0.2g | 10.9g |
| Dunnes Stores Irish Creamery Butter 454g | 739 | 0.1g | 0.1g | 11.1g |
| Dunnes Stores Irish Creamy Butter 227g | 739 | 0.1g | 0.1g | 11.1g |
| Dunnes Stores Taste of Butter 500g | 486 | 0.1g | 0.1g | 11.1g |
Showing the top 50 of the 120 butter 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.
Median across all 120 of them is 0.1g of protein per 100 calories. Not one of them clears 10g of protein per 100 calories, which is the line Keith uses for a food that pays for its calories.
Calories run from 48 to 884 per 100g inside this one group, an 18-fold spread, so “butter” 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 0.1g of protein per 100 calories across 39 products, against 0.1g for the 81 name-brand ones.
Nothing here is a protein food, so treat it as calories. At a median of 0.1g of protein per 100 calories this group is a taste and energy decision, not a macro one.
106 of the 120 carry 400 calories or more per 100g — the ones worth weighing rather than eyeballing.
Front-of-pack claims on this stuff rarely match the back, so scan it with the label checker.
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.
We track 120 butter products across Irish supermarkets and brands. 120 of them carry 20 calories or more per 100g, which is the point below which protein per 100 calories stops being a real number, so those are the ones ranked and averaged here.
The table is sorted highest protein per 100 calories first, so the answer is the top row. The more useful number is that the median for the whole group is 0.1g per 100 calories and 0 products clear 10g — that tells you whether butter is worth buying for protein at all, which protein per 100g does not.