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McDonald's · Breakfast

Egg and Cheese Biscuit

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Egg and Cheese Biscuit

13 g protein · 390 cals · 141 g

Why this score

engineered against fullness

Fat 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

13% of kcal
46% water
3 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

3%
59%

How scores work

Per

Calories
390
Protein
(13%)
13 g
Fat
(48%)
21 g
Carbohydrates
(39%)
39 g
of which sugar
3 g
Fiber
1 g
Sodium
1,109 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's

Higher-scoring, from McDonald's own “Breakfast” in United States.

Ingredients

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., Folded Egg Ingredients: Eggs, Nonfat Milk, Modified Food Starch, Salt, Citric Acid. Contains: Egg, Milk., Pasteurized Process American Cheese Ingredients: Milk, Cream, Water, Sodium Citrate, Salt, Cheese Cultures, Citric Acid, Enzymes, Soy Lecithin, Color Added. Contains: Milk, Soy., 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.

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