McDonald's Nutrition: Full UK Menu Breakdown

Every item on the McDonald’s UK menu, measured against what a specific person actually needs in a day rather than an adult average.

Two things Boone does that a nutrition label does not

Free sugar, separated from the rest. McDonald’s publishes a total sugar figure. NHS daily limits apply only to free sugars, and exclude the sugars naturally present in milk and whole fruit. Those two numbers can be very far apart. A Mayo Chicken Happy Meal shows 18.1g of total sugar, but 12g of that is milk lactose and 1g is whole cucumber, so the figure that counts against a child’s limit is 5.1g. On a latte the entire 14g is milk sugar and none of it counts. On a Coca-Cola every gram counts. Boone works out the split for every item and shows both.

Guidelines by age and sex, not an average. A daily saturated fat guideline is 20g for a woman and 30g for a man. A daily free sugar limit is 30g for an adult and 19g for a child aged 4 to 6. The same item is a different proportion of the day depending on who is eating it, and a single percentage on a label hides that. Every figure on these pages can be recalculated for an adult man, an adult woman, or a child aged 4 to 6, 7 to 10, or 11 to 17.

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