Calories in Centra Beef (Ireland)

Centra beef ranked by protein density

Showing the top 32 of the 32 Centra beef products that carry a comparable calorie figure, ranked by protein per 100 calories.

What Centra's beef looks like next to everyone else's

Median across the 32 Centra beef products with usable figures is 8.2g of protein per 100 calories. That is behind the 8.7g median for beef across every chain and brand in the database, which is 493 products.

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

Of the four chains carrying enough beef to compare, Centra comes fourth, behind Lidl on 13.5g.

The best Centra option here reaches 18.2g of protein per 100 calories; somewhere in the wider beef group something reaches 21.8g, so Centra is not where the ceiling is.

Calories run from 66 to 275 per 100g across the Centra beef range, a 4-fold spread, so “Centra beef” on its own tells you almost nothing about what a portion costs you.

What to pick in Centra

On the numbers the pick is Centra Extra Lean Irish Beef Mince 330g: 18.2g of protein per 100 calories, 2.2 times the 8.2g median for the group.

Nothing in here passes 400 calories per 100g, so portion size matters less than it does in the snack aisles.

Where this fits

Beef across every Irish store is the wider group this sits in, and everything else Centra 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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