Why this score
engineered against fullnessConcentrated 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
What pulls it down
Per
- Calories
- 340
- Protein
- (6%)
- 5 g
- Fat
- (19%)
- 7 g
- Carbohydrates
- (75%)
- 63 g
- of which sugar
- 45 g
- Fiber
- 0 g
- Sodium
- 233 mg
Percentages are the share of calories from each macronutrient.
The serving weight is worked out from McDonald's own two sets of figures — what one serving contains, against what 100 g contains — so it is their number, not our guess.
Alternatives
McDonald'sHigher-scoring, from McDonald's own “Featured Items” in Canada.
Ingredients
Vanilla Ice Milk Milk ingredients, Sugars (sugar, glucose, dextrose), Modified milk ingredients, Mono- and diglycerides, Guar gum, Carrageenan, Cellulose gum, Natural flavour, Sodium hydroxide, Sodium carbonate., Hot Caramel Topping Sugars (glucose syrup, sugar, glucose-fructose), Sweetened condensed milk, Water, Unsalted butter, Disodium phosphate, Salt, Pectin, Natural flavours (plant and dairy source)..
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.