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
- 360
- Protein
- (11%)
- 10 g
- Fat
- (36%)
- 14 g
- Carbohydrates
- (53%)
- 47 g
- of which sugar
- 14 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 960 mg
Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.
Alternatives
McDonald'sHigher-scoring, from McDonald's own “Featured Items” in Canada.
Ingredients
McGriddles Cakes Water, Enriched flour, Sugars (sugar, dextrose, brown sugar), Modified palm oil shortening, Baking powder, Soybean oil, Rice flour, Whey powder, Salt, Natural flavours, Modified tapioca starch, Buttermilk powder, Caramel colour, Soy lecithin., Junior Chicken Patty Chicken, Wheat flour, Liquid vegetable oil shortening (canola oil, corn oil, hydrogenated soybean oil), Toasted wheat crumb, Water, Chicken skin, Modified corn starch, Salt, Spice, Potassium chloride, Wheat gluten, Vegetable oil, Natural flavour, Baking soda, Garlic powder, Baking powder. Cooked in vegetable oil (high oleic low linoleic canola oil and/or canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, citric acid, dimethylpolysiloxane)..
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.