Calories in Soft Drinks (Ireland)

Soft Drinks ranked by protein density

Showing the top 50 of the 85 soft drinks 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 soft drinks numbers show

85 of the 325 soft drinks products carry 20 calories or more per 100g, which is the floor below which protein per 100 calories stops being a real number. Across those the median is 0g 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 20 to 349 per 100g inside this one group, a 17-fold spread, so “soft drinks” on its own tells you almost nothing about what a portion costs you.

This is a name-brand group: only 5 of the 85 are supermarket own-label, too few to compare the two fairly.

The bigger finding is the other 240: they carry under 20 calories per 100ml, so most of this shelf costs nothing against a calorie target. The choice that matters is which side of that line a product sits on, not which brand it is.

What to actually pick

Nothing here is a protein food, so treat it as calories. At a median of 0g of protein per 100 calories this group is a taste and energy decision, not a macro one.

Nothing in here passes 400 calories per 100g, so portion size matters less than it does in the snack aisles.

Where this fits

Drinks are the easiest thing in a day to miss, so this pairs with the calories people forget to count.

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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