Sugar across this section runs from 5.7g to 45g, an eightfold spread. Only two items, the Oreo and Smarties Mini McFlurries, come in under a young child’s daily free sugar limit. A Mini McFlurry is exactly half a regular, verified across four different products.
The 26 items in this section range from 17 kcal for the McDonald's Melon Chunks up to 469 kcal for the McDonald's Vanilla Milkshake (Large). 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.