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McDonald's · Breakfast

Sausage Biscuit

5
Sausage Biscuit

11 g protein · 461 cals · 125 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

10% of kcal
35% water
4 g/Mcal

What pulls it down

1%
60%

How scores work

Per

Calories
461
Protein
(10%)
11 g
Fat
(59%)
30 g
Carbohydrates
(32%)
37 g
of which sugar
2 g
Fiber
2 g
Sodium
1,093 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., Sausage Patty Ingredients: Pork, Water, Salt, Spices, Dextrose, Sugar, Rosemary Extract, Natural Flavors., Salted Butter Ingredients: Cream, Salt.

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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