Calories in Lidl Salad (Ireland)

Lidl salad ranked by protein density

Showing the top 48 of the 48 Lidl salad products that carry a comparable calorie figure, ranked by protein per 100 calories.

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

Median across the 48 Lidl salad products with usable figures is 1.4g of protein per 100 calories. That is behind the 2.1g median for salad across every chain and brand in the database, which is 307 products.

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

Of the three chains carrying enough salad to compare, Lidl comes third, behind Tesco on 2.4g.

The best Lidl option here reaches 12.2g of protein per 100 calories; somewhere in the wider salad group something reaches 14.8g, so Lidl is not where the ceiling is.

Calories run from 20 to 480 per 100g across the Lidl salad range, a 24-fold spread, so “Lidl salad” on its own tells you almost nothing about what a portion costs you.

What to pick in Lidl

Most of what is sold as salad is not a protein food. The 4 that clear 10g per 100 calories sit at the top of the table and are the exceptions, not the rule.

2 of the 48 carry 400 calories or more per 100g — the ones worth weighing rather than eyeballing.

Where this fits

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

If the real question is what to put on the plate, there is a week of Irish meals with the numbers already done.

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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