McDonald's US Happy Meal: calories, sugar and sodium for every item
Healthiest McDonald's US Happy Meal options for you
Added sugar across the menu
Each dot is one item. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025 to 2030 say a meal should have no more than 10g of added sugar, so anything past the line is over the limit on its own.
Item images are illustrations created by Boone, not photographs.
All three Happy Meals come with Kids fries, apple slices and a 1% milk jug. The McNuggets meals carry no added sugar at all and the Hamburger meal 5g, all from the burger. Sodium runs from 510mg to 680mg, a third to nearly half of the daily limit for a child aged 4 to 8, before any dip. A Tangy Barbeque dip adds 9g of added sugar.
The 3 items in this section range from 395 calories for the McDonald's US Chicken McNuggets (4 piece) Happy Meal up to 475 calories for the McDonald's US Hamburger Happy Meal. 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.
What a typical order adds up to
This menu, ranked
Every item in order, for the question you are asking.
The restaurant’s own numbers, checked and put in context
Source.
Corrections. Figures that cannot be right are corrected, and added sugar is worked out from the ingredients where a chain publishes total sugar only.
Guidelines. Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025 to 2030: no more than 10g of added sugar in a meal, none for children under 10, sodium limits by age and saturated fat under 10% of calories. Every item page can also switch to UK NHS guidance.
Allergens. Always check with the restaurant if you have an allergy.
Images. Item images are illustrations created by Boone, not photographs.
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