Why this score
engineered against fullnessFat 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
- 290
- Protein
- (18%)
- 13 g
- Fat
- (50%)
- 16 g
- Carbohydrates
- (32%)
- 23 g
- of which sugar
- 1 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 570 mg
Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.
Alternatives
McDonald'sHigher-scoring, from McDonald's own “Featured Items” in Canada.
Ingredients
Egg Mixture Scrambled egg (whole egg, skim milk, modified corn starch, soybean oil, salt, xanthan gum, spices, citric acid, natural flavours [plant source]), Sausage crumbles (pork, water, salt, dextrose, spices, rosemary extract, sugar), Vegetables (tomatoes, green chilies, onions, calcium chloride)., 8 White Flour Tortilla Enriched bleached wheat flour, Water, Vegetable shortening (interesterified soybean oil, fully hydrogenated soybean oil), Sugar, Baking powder (sodium bicarbonate, corn starch, sodium aluminum sulfate, calcium sulfate, monocalcium phosphate), Potassium chloride, Monoglycerides, Salt, Vital wheat gluten, Sodium metabisulfite., Processed Cheese Cheese (milk, partly skimmed milk, modified milk ingredients, salt, bacterial culture, calcium chloride, microbial enzyme, lipase, annatto), Modified milk ingredients, Water, Sodium citrate, Salt, Citric acid, Beta-carotene, Paprika, Soy lecithin..
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.