Calories in Tesco Chicken (Ireland)

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Tesco chicken ranked by protein density

Showing the top 50 of the 85 Tesco chicken 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, last checked 2026-09-18.

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

Median across the 85 Tesco chicken products with usable figures is 13.5g of protein per 100 calories. That is ahead of the 8.9g median for chicken across every chain and brand in the database, which is 1,867 products.

58 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.

Of the six chains carrying enough chicken to compare, Tesco comes second, behind Aldi on 16.5g.

The best Tesco option here reaches 22.6g of protein per 100 calories; somewhere in the wider chicken group something reaches 24g, so Tesco is not where the ceiling is.

Calories run from 30 to 282 per 100g across the Tesco chicken range, a 9-fold spread, so “Tesco chicken” on its own tells you almost nothing about what a portion costs you.

What to pick in Tesco

Most of this group already clears the benchmark, so the decision is price and taste rather than macros. Tesco 2 Chicken Breast Fillets 300g tops the table at 22.6g of protein per 100 calories.

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

Where this fits

Chicken across every Irish store is the wider group this sits in, and everything else Tesco 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 calorie app.

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