The salads are not automatically the lighter choice. Crispy onions add palm oil to all three, and swapping ketchup for brown sauce on any item adds barley as a declared allergen.
The 6 items in this section range from 58 kcal for the McDonald's Side Salad up to 477 kcal for the McDonald's Crispy BBQ & Bacon Wrap. 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.