Calories in Centra Chicken (Ireland)

Centra chicken ranked by protein density

Showing the top 35 of the 35 Centra chicken products that carry a comparable calorie figure, ranked by protein per 100 calories.

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

Median across the 35 Centra chicken products with usable figures is 9.5g of protein per 100 calories. That is ahead of the 6.2g median for chicken across every chain and brand in the database, which is 1,379 products.

16 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.

Of the seven chains carrying enough chicken to compare, Centra comes sixth, behind Aldi on 17.1g.

The best Centra option here reaches 21.8g of protein per 100 calories; somewhere in the wider chicken group something reaches 23.5g, so Centra is not where the ceiling is.

Calories run from 50 to 293 per 100g across the Centra chicken range, a 6-fold spread, so “Centra chicken” 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 Chicken Breast Fillets 454g: 21.8g of protein per 100 calories, 2.3 times the 9.5g 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

Chicken 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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