Why this score
easy to overeatFat and refined carbohydrate converging the way engineered food does; dense calories with little protein, volume or fiber to fill you up.
Three routes to fullness — one is enough
What pulls it down
Per
- Calories
- 1,524
- Protein
- (23%)
- 86 g
- Fat
- (53%)
- 89 g
- Carbohydrates
- (25%)
- 93 g
- of which sugar
- 2 g
- Fiber
- 0 g
- Sodium
- 2,605 mg
Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.
Alternatives
McDonald'sHigher-scoring, from McDonald's own “Chicken fish” in Australia.
Ingredients
CHICKEN MCNUGGETS: Chicken, Water, Flour (<strong>Wheat</strong>, Corn), Canola Oil, Thickeners (1420, 1422), Starch (Potato, Corn, <strong>Wheat</strong>, Tapioca), Salt, Mineral Salts (450, 500, 341, 327), Spices (Celery, White Pepper, Black Pepper), Sunflower Oil, Dextrose.
Nutrition as published by McDonald's — check it yourself. Product photograph © McDonald's, shown to identify the item. The score measures satiety per calorie. It is not a virtue scale, and no food here is forbidden. How the score works.

