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
- 169
- Protein
- (5%)
- 2 g
- Fat
- (43%)
- 8 g
- Carbohydrates
- (52%)
- 22 g
- of which sugar
- 15 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 94 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 “Desserts & Shakes” in United States.
Ingredients
Ingredients: Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips (sugar, Unsweetened Chocolate, Cocoa Butter, Milkfat, Soy Lecithin, Natural Flavor), Enriched Flour (bleached Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Margarine (palm Oil, Water, Soybean Oil, Salt, Whey, Natural Flavor, Mono And Diglycerides, Soy Lecithin, Vitamin A Palmitate, Beta Carotene [color]), Sugar, Brown Sugar, Egg, Contains 2% Or Less: Leavening (baking Soda, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Monocalcium Phosphate), Salt, Natural Flavor, Caramel Color.
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.