McDonald's US Caramel Apple Pie Frappé (Medium): calories and sugar by portion, age and sex

Nutrition information: McDonald's US Caramel Apple Pie Frappé (Medium)

Nutrition figures are McDonald’s USA published data, per item as sold and before any optional sauces or extras. Boone converts them to the portion and age comparisons on this page.

McDonald's US Caramel Apple Pie Frappé (Medium) is over the US per-meal added sugar limit

McDonald's US Caramel Apple Pie Frappé (Medium) contains 72g of added sugar, 7.2 times the 10g per-meal limit in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The same guidelines recommend no added sugar at all for children aged 10 and under. It is also high in saturated fat.

FDA Daily Values (2,000-calorie diet)

Where the sugar comes from: McDonald's US Caramel Apple Pie Frappé (Medium)

72g of the 83g counts as added sugar, or about 18.0 teaspoons. The other 11g is naturally occurring.

Added sugars come from

• sugar, high fructose corn syrup in the caramel coffee frappé base
• corn syrup, invert sugar, pear juice concentrate, sugar in the apple pie syrup
• sugar in the salted caramel whipped cream
• sugar, brown sugar, honey in the apple pie topping

Naturally occurring sugars come from

• lactose in the caramel coffee frappé base
• lactose in the salted caramel whipped cream
• lactose in the apple pie topping

Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025–2030: no more than 10g of added sugar per meal from age 11 and none for children aged 10 and under. FDA Daily Value: 50g a day. Sources are read from the published ingredient list for each component.

Processing and additives: McDonald's US Caramel Apple Pie Frappé (Medium)

McDonald's US Caramel Apple Pie Frappé (Medium) is assembled from 4 separately manufactured components, combined and served at the point of sale. Reading the ingredient list closely, it contains corn syrups and invert sugar, emulsifiers, thickeners and gums, flavourings, colours, preservatives, phosphates and raising agents and emulsifying and buffering salts. These are not there to add nutritional value. They make industrial production and distribution possible.

Boone classifies McDonald's US Caramel Apple Pie Frappé (Medium) as NOVA group 4, ultra-processed, based on the additives named above. NOVA groups foods by how far they are from their whole-food form, not by how nutritious they are. A group 4 food is not automatically unhealthy, and a group 1 food is not automatically healthy. Read from the published ingredient list, September 2026.

Ingredient count by order: McDonald's US Caramel Apple Pie Frappé (Medium)

The 20 manufactured ingredients

artificial flavor, caramel color, carrageenan, coffee extract, corn syrup, disodium phosphate, folic acid, guar gum, high fructose corn syrup, invert sugar, locust bean gum, mono and diglycerides, natural flavor, niacin, oleoresin paprika, potassium citrate, potassium sorbate, reduced iron, riboflavin, thiamine mononitrate.

The 21 raw ingredients

baking soda, brown sugar, butter, canola oil, cinnamon, cream, graham crumb, graham flour, honey, milk, oats, palm oil, pear juice concentrate, pretzels, salt, soybean oil, sugar, sugarcane molasses, water, wheat flour, yeast.

What those ingredients are, by type

Boone counts every distinct named ingredient on McDonald’s published component lists, including sub-ingredients, and removes duplicates, so salt appearing in four components counts once. Additive class names are dropped and the named substance kept, so “leavening (baking soda)” counts baking soda once. Ice and water added at the counter are not counted. Raw covers whole foods and basic kitchen staples such as flour, sugar, salt and oil. Manufactured covers substances that only exist as an output of industrial processing. Every figure here is a minimum. The build uses a Sweet ’n Sour sauce.

Ingredients by component: McDonald's US Caramel Apple Pie Frappé (Medium)

Ingredients taken from the McDonald’s USA product pages, retrieved September 2026, with obvious spelling errors corrected. Recipes change - always check in restaurant before ordering if you have an allergy.

Allergen information: McDonald's US Caramel Apple Pie Frappé (Medium)

Contains caffeine, but McDonald’s USA does not publish a figure. Contains = declared by McDonald’s USA. May contain = McDonald’s states the allergen may be present. McDonald’s prepares food in shared kitchens, so no item can be guaranteed allergen free. UK rules also require barley, oats, mustard, celery and sulphites to be declared; these are shown where the ingredient list names them. Retrieved September 2026.