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

Happy Meal sugar figures look far worse than they are. A Mayo Chicken Happy Meal shows 18.1g of total sugar, but 12g is milk lactose and 1g is whole cucumber, so the free sugar that counts is 5.1g.

The 5 items in this section range from 311 kcal for the McDonald's Chicken McNuggets (4 piece) Happy Meal up to 440 kcal for the McDonald's Cheeseburger Happy Meal. 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.