Calories in SuperValu Foods (Ireland)

SuperValu products ranked by protein density

Showing the top 50 of the 798 SuperValu 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 SuperValu numbers show

Across the 798 SuperValu own-label products with usable label figures, the median is 3.5g of protein per 100 calories. 121 clear 10g of protein per 100 calories — about one in seven, and 10g is the line Keith uses for a food that pays for its calories.

SuperValu is not an outlier on that: Aldi, Tesco and Centra all land on the same 3.5g at the median, four of the seven chains within a rounding error of each other. Lidl is the only one that breaks away, at 4.7g.

Inside SuperValu it is concentrated, not spread: beef runs a median of 11.4g of protein per 100 calories across 32 products, and only three other aisles get past 6.7g.

Calories run from 20 to 889 per 100g across the SuperValu own-label range, a 44-fold spread, so “SuperValu own-label” on its own tells you almost nothing about what a portion costs you.

What to put in the SuperValu trolley

Shop it by aisle, not by brand. In SuperValu the protein per calorie sits in beef (11.4g), chicken (9.5g) and sausages & bacon (8.3g). Past that it drops away, and the rest of the shop is a calorie decision rather than a protein one.

The single most protein-dense thing SuperValu puts its own name on is SuperValu Tuna Chunks in Brine 56g, at 24g of protein per 100 calories against the 3.5g store median.

102 of the 798 carry 400 calories or more per 100g — the ones worth weighing rather than eyeballing.

Where this fits

The strongest of those is broken out on its own page — SuperValu Beef, 32 products — and the same category across every chain and brand is on Beef in Ireland.

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.

To look up one specific SuperValu item rather than browse, the whole 20,000-product database is searchable on Calories in Ireland, and the same figures are in the free calorie tracker.

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