Calories in Lidl Pasta (Ireland)

Lidl pasta ranked by protein density

Showing the top 50 of the 90 Lidl pasta products that carry a comparable calorie figure, ranked by protein per 100 calories.

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

Median across the 90 Lidl pasta products with usable figures is 3.8g of protein per 100 calories. That is level with the 3.6g median for pasta across all 564 products in the database, chains and name brands together.

Exactly one clears 10g of protein per 100 calories, which is the line Keith uses for a food that pays for its calories.

Of the three chains carrying enough pasta to compare, Lidl has the strongest own-label range; SuperValu the weakest.

The best Lidl option here reaches 10.2g of protein per 100 calories; somewhere in the wider pasta group something reaches 16.3g, so Lidl is not where the ceiling is.

Calories run from 40 to 380 per 100g across the Lidl pasta range, a 10-fold spread, so “Lidl pasta” on its own tells you almost nothing about what a portion costs you.

What to pick in Lidl

Most of what is sold as pasta is not a protein food. Exactly one product clears 10g per 100 calories, and it sits at the top of the table — an exception, not a rule to shop by.

Nothing in here passes 400 calories per 100g, so portion size matters less than it does in the snack aisles.

Where this fits

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

The practical half of this — counting calories without weighing everything.

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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