Every milkshake on this menu, at every size, exceeds a young child’s entire daily free sugar allowance. The best case, a small chocolate at 27g, is still 142% of the limit for a child aged 4 to 6. A large vanilla at 77g is the highest sugar figure anywhere on the McDonald’s UK menu.
The 39 items in this section range from 0 kcal for the McDonald's Brecon Carreg Natural Mineral Water (Still) 330ml 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.