McDonald's · Featured Items

Cranberry Orange Muffin

5 g protein · 380 cals · 124 g

Why this score

engineered against fullness

Concentrated sugar, with little protein or fiber to slow it down; dense calories with little protein, volume or fiber to fill you up.

Three routes to fullness — one is enough

5% of kcal

31% water

5 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

51%

40%

How scores work

Per

Calories: 380
Protein: (5%); 5 g
Fat: (21%); 9 g
Carbohydrates: (74%); 71 g
of which sugar: 37 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sodium: 410 mg

Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.

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Ingredients

Cranberry Orange Muffin Unbleached enriched wheat flour, Sugars (sugar, demerara cane sugar), Water, Cranberries, Liquid egg white, Vegetable oil, Yogurt (modified milk ingredients, modified corn starch, active bacterial culture), Buttermilk (skim milk, salt, bacterial cultures), Oranges, Orange juice concentrate, Baking powder, Baking soda, Salt, Propylene glycol esters of fatty acids, Monoglycerides, Cellulose gum, Carrageenan, Sodium stearoyl-lactate, Guar gum, Soy lecithin, Potassium chloride, Turmeric, Annatto, Natural flavour..

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.

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