Calories in Ice Cream (Ireland)

Ice Cream ranked by protein density

Showing the top 50 of the 329 ice cream 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 ice cream numbers show

Median across all 329 of them is 1.4g 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 52 to 499 per 100g inside this one group, a 10-fold spread, so “ice cream” 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 1.4g of protein per 100 calories across 59 products, against 1.4g for the 270 name-brand ones.

What to actually pick

Nothing here is a protein food, so treat it as calories. At a median of 1.4g of protein per 100 calories this group is a taste and energy decision, not a macro one.

4 of the 329 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 ice cream 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 Rocky Road Chocolate Ice Cream 500g

1.7g protein / 100kcal

SuperValu Milk Chocolate Ice Cream 3 x 100ml

1.2g protein / 100kcal

Dunnes Stores 8 Chocolate Wafer Ice Creams 8 x 54g

1.1g protein / 100kcal

Lidl Bon Gelati Vanilla Soft Scoop Ice Cream 2L

0.9g protein / 100kcal

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