Calories in Protein Shakes (Ireland)

Protein Shakes ranked by protein density

Showing the top 50 of the 113 protein shakes 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 shakes numbers show

Median across all 113 of them is 15.4g of protein per 100 calories. 96 clear 10g of protein per 100 calories — most of them, and 10g is the line Keith uses for a food that pays for its calories.

Calories run from 27 to 417 per 100g inside this one group, a 15-fold spread, so “protein shakes” 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 16.1g of protein per 100 calories across 14 products, against 15g for the 99 name-brand ones.

What to actually pick

Most of this group already clears the benchmark, so the decision is price and taste rather than macros. Bulk Powders Pure Whey Isolate 90 Protein Shake Powder Chocolate Malted Honeycomb Flavour 1kg tops the table at 22.7g of protein per 100 calories.

6 of the 113 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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