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
- 250
- Protein
- (5%)
- 3 g
- Fat
- (37%)
- 10 g
- Carbohydrates
- (59%)
- 36 g
- of which sugar
- 23 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 170 mg
Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.
Alternatives
McDonald'sHigher-scoring, from McDonald's own “Snacks & Sides” in Canada.
Ingredients
Rainbow Sprinkle Cookie Enriched wheat flour (contains barley), Sugars (sugar, brown sugar), Palm and soybean oil spread (modified palm oil, water, soybean oil, salt, whey powder (milk), natural flavour (contains milk), mono- and diglycerides, soy lecithin, vitamin A palmitate added, beta-carotene [colour]), White confectionery chips (sugar, modified palm kernel and/or palm oil, skim milk powder, soy lecithin, natural flavour), Liquid whole eggs, Rainbow sprinkles (sugar, corn starch, modified palm and palm kernel oil, annatto extract [colour], carnauba wax, citric acid, dextrin, fruit and vegetable juice [sweet potato, radish, cherry, apple, carrot, blueberry], paprika extract [colour], sodium bicarbonate, soy lecithin, spirulina extract [colour], turmeric oleoresin [colour]), Natural flavour, Sodium bicarbonate, Salt, Baking powder..
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.