Calories in Tesco Vegetables (Ireland)

Tesco vegetables ranked by protein density

Showing the top 34 of the 34 Tesco vegetables products that carry a comparable calorie figure, ranked by protein per 100 calories.

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

Median across the 34 Tesco vegetables products with usable figures is 5.4g of protein per 100 calories. That is ahead of the 4.6g median for vegetables across every chain and brand in the database, which is 395 products.

5 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.

Of the four chains carrying enough vegetables to compare, Tesco comes third, behind Dunnes Stores on 6g.

The best Tesco option here reaches 12.7g of protein per 100 calories; somewhere in the wider vegetables group something reaches 14.8g, so Tesco is not where the ceiling is.

Calories run from 25 to 518 per 100g across the Tesco vegetables range, a 21-fold spread, so “Tesco vegetables” on its own tells you almost nothing about what a portion costs you.

What to pick in Tesco

Most of what is sold as vegetables is not a protein food. The 5 that clear 10g per 100 calories sit at the top of the table and are the exceptions, not the rule.

1 of the 34 carry 400 calories or more per 100g — the ones worth weighing rather than eyeballing.

Where this fits

Vegetables 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.

Real Tesco vegetables products with a photo

Real barcode-matched products with a confirmed photo — the same rule as Calories in Ireland: a photo only shows where we have a confirmed Open Food Facts match, never a guessed stock image.

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