Calories in Lidl Chocolate (Ireland)

Lidl chocolate ranked by protein density

Showing the top 50 of the 127 Lidl chocolate products that carry a comparable calorie figure, ranked by protein per 100 calories.

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

Median across the 127 Lidl chocolate products with usable figures is 1.4g of protein per 100 calories. That is level with the 1.3g median for chocolate across all 2,031 products in the database, chains and name brands together.

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

Of the five chains carrying enough chocolate to compare, Lidl comes second, behind Aldi on 1.4g.

The best Lidl option here reaches 16g of protein per 100 calories, which is as high as anything in the whole chocolate group gets.

Calories run from 51 to 635 per 100g across the Lidl chocolate range, a 12-fold spread, so “Lidl chocolate” on its own tells you almost nothing about what a portion costs you.

What to pick in Lidl

Most of what is sold as chocolate is not a protein food. The 14 that clear 10g per 100 calories sit at the top of the table and are the exceptions, not the rule.

66 of the 127 carry 400 calories or more per 100g — the ones worth weighing rather than eyeballing.

Where this fits

Chocolate across every Irish store is the wider group this sits in, and everything else Lidl sells is the other half of the comparison.

This is the aisle that quietly wrecks a calorie target, which is the whole point of where the calories actually hide.

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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