Calories in Tesco Sauces & Condiments (Ireland)

Tesco sauces & condiments ranked by protein density

Showing the top 29 of the 29 Tesco sauces & condiments products that carry a comparable calorie figure, ranked by protein per 100 calories.

What Tesco's sauces & condiments looks like next to everyone else's

Median across the 29 Tesco sauces & condiments products with usable figures is 1.5g of protein per 100 calories. That is level with the 1.6g median for sauces & condiments across all 1,175 products in the database, chains and name brands together.

Exactly one clears 10g of protein per 100 calories, which is the line Keith uses for a food that pays for its calories.

Of the five chains carrying enough sauces & condiments to compare, Tesco comes third, behind Dunnes Stores on 1.9g.

The best Tesco option here reaches 10.6g of protein per 100 calories; somewhere in the wider sauces & condiments group something reaches 17.3g, so Tesco is not where the ceiling is.

Calories run from 68 to 519 per 100g across the Tesco sauces & condiments range, an 8-fold spread, so “Tesco sauces & condiments” on its own tells you almost nothing about what a portion costs you.

What to pick in Tesco

Most of what is sold as sauces & condiments is not a protein food. Exactly one product clears 10g per 100 calories, and it sits at the top of the table — an exception, not a rule to shop by.

1 of the 29 carry 400 calories or more per 100g — the ones worth weighing rather than eyeballing.

Where this fits

Sauces & Condiments across every Irish store is the wider group this sits in, and everything else Tesco sells is the other half of the comparison.

Front-of-pack claims on this stuff rarely match the back, so scan it with the label checker.

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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