Dietitian reveals which foods never to order at McDonald's

August 2024 · 3 minute read

Love it or hate it, McDonald’s is one of the few places you can find hot, relatively fresh, and reasonably inexpensive meal options.

Ultimately McDonald’s, like all fast-food takeaways, is ultra-processed food that adds a lot of fat, refined carbohydrates, salt, and sugar to the diet.

But some options are much worse than others.

So, if you find yourself on an unexpected run here are the options that are better choices nutritionally – and the ones to steer well clear of.

Nutritionists say there are some options that are much better than others at McDonald’s. Getty Images

Better Macca’s choices:

Chicken McBites

With less than 200 calories per 10 bites and 11g of fat, these are some of the better menu items, although you will need to team it with a salad to make it a satisfying meal.

The Chicken McBites are one of the chain’s healthier options. McDonald's

Wholemeal Grilled Chicken Snack Wrap

If you remember to order the grilled variety and ask for the wholemeal version, you will have found yourself one of the leanest options on the McDonald’s menu.

With just 9g of fat and 200 calories per serving, you can lighten it even further if you ask for no mayo.

The Chicken Snack Wrap is another good option, nutritionists say. McDonald's

McChicken

If you feel like a burger, McChicken is one of your best options with 450 calories, 22g of fat, and 600mg of sodium, it is roughly half the calorie and fat load than many of the other burger options on the Macca’s menu.

The worst:

BBQ Bacon Angus

With more than 40g of fat, 800 calories, and a massive 1600mg of sodium, which is almost your entire upper daily recommended intake and that is without any side order of fries, there are much better burger options on the menu than a Bacon Angus.

The BBQ Bacon Angus burger is almost your entire daily recommended intake of sodium. McDonald's

Double Quarter Pounder

With minimal salad, two slices of cheese, and two servings of meat, this simple burger will set you back more than 800 calories, a massive 50g of fat (which is more than some people need in an entire day), and more than 1400mg of sodium.

Crispy Caesar Salad

Don’t let the name of ‘salad’ fool you, a closer look at the nutritional information of the Caesar will reveal a massive 40g of fat and 1500mg of sodium, meaning that this salad is certainly no healthier than a burger.

Big Breakfast Burger

As the name suggests, this loaded breakfast burger will add 40g of fat to your morning meal along with more than 1500mg of sodium.

The Caesar salad has an enormous amount of fat and sodium. McDonald's

Frozen Coke

Extremely popular, while you can order the Zero sugar variety, if you opt for regular you will be drinking 10 teaspoons of sugar.

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