Calories in Lidl Potatoes (Ireland)

Lidl potatoes ranked by protein density

Showing the top 50 of the 79 Lidl potatoes products that carry a comparable calorie figure, ranked by protein per 100 calories.

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

Median across the 79 Lidl potatoes products with usable figures is 1.6g of protein per 100 calories. That is level with the 1.4g median for potatoes across all 423 products in the database, chains and name brands together.

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.

Of the two chains carrying enough potatoes to compare, Lidl comes second, behind SuperValu on 2g.

The best Lidl option here reaches 4.1g of protein per 100 calories; somewhere in the wider potatoes group something reaches 6.7g, so Lidl is not where the ceiling is.

Calories run from 64 to 553 per 100g across the Lidl potatoes range, a 9-fold spread, so “Lidl potatoes” on its own tells you almost nothing about what a portion costs you.

What to pick in Lidl

Nothing here is a protein food, so treat it as calories. At a median of 1.6g of protein per 100 calories this group is a taste and energy decision, not a macro one.

17 of the 79 carry 400 calories or more per 100g — the ones worth weighing rather than eyeballing.

Where this fits

Potatoes 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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