Calories in Chocolate (Ireland)

Chocolate ranked by protein density

Showing the top 50 of the 2,031 chocolate 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 chocolate numbers show

2,031 of the 2,032 chocolate 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 1.3g of protein per 100 calories. 51 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 21 to 648 per 100g inside this one group, a 31-fold spread, so “chocolate” 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 300 products, against 1.3g for the 1,731 name-brand ones.

The chains are not equal on this: Aldi runs a median of 1.4g of protein per 100 calories across its 48 own-label chocolate products, Centra 1.2g across 30.

What to actually pick

Most of what is sold as chocolate is not a protein food. The 51 that clear 10g per 100 calories sit at the top of the table and are the exceptions, not the rule.

1,508 of the 2,031 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: Aldi Chocolate covers 48 products, and everything else Aldi sells sits alongside it.

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 chocolate 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 Milk Chocolate Covered Peanuts

2.3g protein / 100kcal

SuperValu Rocky Road Chocolate Ice Cream 500g

1.7g protein / 100kcal

Dunnes Stores Milk Chocolate Finger Sticks

1.6g protein / 100kcal

Dunnes Stores Milk Chocolate Oaties Biscuits 300g

1.5g protein / 100kcal

Centra Chocolate Butter Biscuits 125g

1.4g protein / 100kcal

Dunnes Stores Milk Chocolate Butter Biscuits 125g

1.4g protein / 100kcal

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