Now I’ve never noticed this before but you know the piece of paper that they put on your tray when they serve your Mcdonalds… well on Saturday when I was waiting for the kids to finish off their “happy” meal I started to look at the tray cover. Low and behold on the back of it was the nutritional breakdown for all the food that they serve. It was quite an interesting read.
Based on a quick bit of research on the web I have worked out that on a normal healthy diet I should be consuming between 2000 – 2500 calories a day, a maximum fat intake of 65 grams, max carbohydrate of 300 grams (this seems a lot when you have previously been on the Atkins diet and stuck to 5 grams of carbs each day to start with), Max salt 2.4 grams, and a recommended fibre intake of 65 grams.
So how does my Mcdonalds lunch fair against these recommendations? ….
I would normally have at Mcdonalds a quarter pounder with cheese, large fries, and a large chocolate milkshake.
So my Quarter pounder with cheese has 516 calories, 26.7 grams of fat, 37.5 grams of carbohydrate, 2.75 grams of salt, and 3.7 grams of fibre.
My large fries has 450 calories, 22.5 grams of fat, 56.7 grams of carbohydrate, 0.93 grams of salt (hmmm doubt that, the amount of extra salt they throw on the fries), and 6.3 grams of fibre.
Then to finish off the chocolate milkshake has 516 calories, 13.1 grams of fat, a whopping 85.3 grams of carbohydrate, no salt, and no fibre.
So my lunch consisted of 1482 calories, 62.3 grams of fat, 179.5 grams of carbohydrate, 3.68 grams of salt, and 6.3 grams of fibre. This meal would not really satisfy my hunger and fill me up but it certainly has taken a large portion of the recommended daily intake figures. Now that I have worked this out I feel a lot stronger about staying away from the Mcdonalds in the future.
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