Calories in Cakes & Muffins (Ireland)

Cakes & Muffins ranked by protein density

Showing the top 50 of the 361 cakes & muffins 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 cakes & muffins numbers show

Median across all 361 of them is 1.3g of protein per 100 calories. 9 clear 10g of protein per 100 calories — about one in 40, and 10g is the line Keith uses for a food that pays for its calories.

Calories run from 26 to 575 per 100g inside this one group, a 22-fold spread, so “cakes & muffins” 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 1.3g of protein per 100 calories across 113 products, against 1.2g for the 248 name-brand ones.

What to actually pick

Most of what is sold as cakes & muffins is not a protein food. The 9 that clear 10g per 100 calories sit at the top of the table and are the exceptions, not the rule.

191 of the 361 carry 400 calories or more per 100g — the ones worth weighing rather than eyeballing.

Where this fits

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

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 cakes & muffins 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.

SuperValu Gluten Free Corn Cakes 110g

1.9g protein / 100kcal

Lidl Rivercote Rice Cakes with Dark Chocolate Coating 150g

1.4g protein / 100kcal

Centra Jaffa Cakes 300g

1.1g protein / 100kcal

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