Calories in Lidl Beef (Ireland)

Lidl beef ranked by protein density

Showing the top 50 of the 195 Lidl beef products that carry a comparable calorie figure, ranked by protein per 100 calories.

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

Median across the 195 Lidl beef products with usable figures is 13.5g of protein per 100 calories. That is ahead of the 8.7g median for beef across every chain and brand in the database, which is 493 products.

120 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 four chains carrying enough beef to compare, Lidl has the strongest own-label range; Centra the weakest.

The best Lidl option here reaches 21.8g of protein per 100 calories, which is as high as anything in the whole beef group gets.

Calories run from 32 to 488 per 100g across the Lidl beef range, a 15-fold spread, so “Lidl beef” on its own tells you almost nothing about what a portion costs you.

What to pick in Lidl

Most of this group already clears the benchmark, so the decision is price and taste rather than macros. Lidl Birchwood Deli Choice 5 Peppered Topside Of Beef Slices 130g tops the table at 21.8g of protein per 100 calories.

2 of the 195 carry 400 calories or more per 100g — the ones worth weighing rather than eyeballing.

Where this fits

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