Sodium is where breakfast adds up fastest. A Big Breakfast with Hotcakes carries 2,070mg, 138% of the daily sodium limit for a child aged 4 to 8, before a drink. Hotcakes are the sugar outlier at 40g of added sugar, four times the per-meal limit, while most McMuffins and biscuit sandwiches carry 1g.
The 21 items in this section range from 140 calories for the McDonald's US Hash Browns up to 1,340 calories for the McDonald's US Big Breakfast with Hotcakes. Boone measures added sugar against the US per-meal limit and sodium against limits by age and sex, and the calculator on every page can switch to UK guidance.