Calories in Spar Chicken (Ireland)

Spar chicken ranked by protein density

Showing the top 43 of the 43 Spar chicken products that carry a comparable calorie figure, ranked by protein per 100 calories.

What Spar's chicken looks like next to everyone else's

Median across the 43 Spar chicken products with usable figures is 6g of protein per 100 calories. That is level with the 6.2g median for chicken across all 1,379 products in the database, chains and name brands together.

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

Of the seven chains carrying enough chicken to compare, Spar comes seventh, behind Aldi on 17.1g.

The best Spar option here reaches 22.6g of protein per 100 calories, which is as high as anything in the whole chicken group gets.

Calories run from 105 to 539 per 100g across the Spar chicken range, a 5-fold spread, so “Spar chicken” on its own tells you almost nothing about what a portion costs you.

What to pick in Spar

On the numbers the pick is SPAR Chicken Fillets 450g: 22.6g of protein per 100 calories, 3.8 times the 6g median for the group.

5 of the 43 carry 400 calories or more per 100g — the ones worth weighing rather than eyeballing.

Where this fits

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

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 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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