Calories in Protein Bars (Ireland)

Protein Bars ranked by protein density

Showing the top 50 of the 275 protein bars 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 protein bars numbers show

Median across all 275 of them is 9.4g of protein per 100 calories. 73 clear 10g of protein per 100 calories — about one in four, and 10g is the line Keith uses for a food that pays for its calories.

Calories run from 100 to 454 per 100g inside this one group, a 5-fold spread, so “protein bars” 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 9.6g of protein per 100 calories across 10 products, against 9.4g for the 265 name-brand ones.

What to actually pick

On the numbers the pick is Lidl Chocolate Brownie Protein Bar 45g: 13.6g of protein per 100 calories, 1.4 times the 9.4g median for the group.

28 of the 275 carry 400 calories or more per 100g — the ones worth weighing rather than eyeballing.

Where this fits

A protein-per-calorie number is only useful once you know the target, and that is how much protein a day actually works out to.

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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