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
- 1,059
- Protein
- (10%)
- 26 g
- Fat
- (41%)
- 48 g
- Carbohydrates
- (50%)
- 131 g
- of which sugar
- 56 g
- Fiber
- 3 g
- Sodium
- 1,539 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 “Breakfast” in United States.
Ingredients
Ingredients: Eggs, Citric Acid. Contains: Egg., Biscuit Ingredients: Enriched Flour (bleached Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Cultured Nonfat Buttermilk (cultured Skim Milk, Nonfat Dry Milk, Modified Food Starch, Salt, Mono And Diglycerides, Locust Bean Gum, Carrageenan), Palm Oil, Palm Kernel Oil, Water, Leavening (sodium Bicarbonate, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate, Monocalcium Phosphate), Contains 2% Or Less: Salt, Sugar, Modified Cellulose, Wheat Protein Isolate, Natural Flavor, Modified Food Starch, Xanthan Gum, Soy Lecithin. Contains: Wheat, Milk, Soy., Hash Browns Ingredients: Potatoes, Vegetable Oil (canola Oil, Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Natural Beef Flavor [wheat And Milk Derivatives]*), Salt, Corn Flour, Dehydrated Potato, Dextrose, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate (maintain Color), Extractives Of Black Pepper. *natural Beef Flavor Contains Hydrolyzed Wheat And Hydrolyzed Milk As Starting Ingredients Contains: Wheat, Milk., Sausage Patty Ingredients: Pork, Water, Salt, Spices, Dextrose, Sugar, Rosemary Extract, Natural Flavors., Salted Butter Ingredients: Cream, Salt. Contains: Milk., Clarified Butter Ingredients: Pasteurized Cream (butterfat).
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.