Calories in Potatoes (Ireland)

Potatoes ranked by protein density

Showing the top 50 of the 423 potatoes products that carry a comparable calorie figure, ranked by protein per 100 calories. Figures per label, sourced from Open Food Facts and tracker user logs.

What the potatoes numbers show

Median across all 423 of them is 1.4g of protein per 100 calories. 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.

Calories run from 28 to 594 per 100g inside this one group, a 21-fold spread, so “potatoes” on its own tells you almost nothing about what a portion costs you.

Own-brand is not the compromise here. The supermarket own-label median is 1.8g of protein per 100 calories across 170 products, against 1.2g for the 253 name-brand ones.

The chains are not equal on this: SuperValu runs a median of 2g of protein per 100 calories across its 25 own-label potatoes products, Lidl 1.6g across 79.

What to actually pick

Nothing here is a protein food, so treat it as calories. At a median of 1.4g of protein per 100 calories this group is a taste and energy decision, not a macro one.

205 of the 423 carry 400 calories or more per 100g — the ones worth weighing rather than eyeballing.

Where this fits

That chain-by-chain gap is why the biggest ranges get their own page: SuperValu Potatoes covers 25 products, and everything else SuperValu sells sits alongside it.

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

For one specific product rather than the whole group, the 20,000-product database is searchable on Calories in Ireland, and the same figures are built into the free calorie tracker.

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