McDonald's Chicken: calories, sugar and salt for every item

Salt is the story here. Chicken Selects carry roughly five times more salt per piece than McNuggets, and a 9-piece Selects Sharebox holds 4.7g, which is 78% of an adult’s entire daily limit.

The 20 items in this section range from 261 kcal for the McDonald's Chicken McNuggets (6 pieces) up to 1193 kcal for the The Chicken Sharebox. Boone separates free sugars from the sugars that occur naturally in milk and whole fruit, which NHS daily limits do not count, and measures every figure against the guideline for a specific age and sex rather than an adult average.