Fast Food Nutrition

Nearly all fast food has one characteristic in common. Yeah, you guessed it, they usually have a very high fat content. To see how your favourite foods match up, as part of the process of good houseekeeping check the list below.

Fast Food

Food item	calories	Fat	carbohydrates	Protein content	Nutritional value
Bacon and egg muffin (100g)	250	high	25	good	good
(per muffin)	380	high	33	good	good
Big Mac	490	high	44	good	good
Cheeseburger (100g)	250	high	30	good	good
(per burger)	300	high	33	good	good
Chicken dippers (100g)	280	high	13	good	good
(per dipper)	50	high	2	good	good
Chicken, fried (100g)	230	high	25	good	good
(per piece. Approx.)	420	high	45	good	good
Chicken McNuggets (per 6)	250	high	12	good	good
(per nugget)	42	high	2	good	good
Chips
Fried (100g)	190	high	30	poor	poor
Oven (100g)	160	low/medium	30	poor	poor
Takeaway (100g)	240	high	30	poor	poor
French fries
Oven-bake (100g)	240	low/medium	36	poor	poor
(per portion)	220	low/medium	28	poor	poor
Takeaway (100g)	280	high	34	poor	poor
Hamburger, takeaway (per burger)	250	high	33	good	good
Hash browns (100g)	230	medium/high	30	poor	poor
(per piece)	120	medium/high	15	poor	poor
McChicken sandwich (per sandwich)	375	medium/high	38	very good	very good
Onion bhaji (100g)	300	high	16	poor	poor
(per bhaji)	65	high	4	poor	poor
Pizza (100g)	250	high	33	good	poor
(per slice)	170	high	25	good	poor
Cheese and tomato deep pan (100g)	310	high	45	good	poor
(per slice)	310	high	45	good	poor
Cheese and tomato, thin (100g)	260	high	28	good	poor
(per slice)	230	high	25	good	poor
Four cheese, thin (100g)	250	high	32	good	poor
(per slice)	155	high	20	good	poor
Pepperoni (100g)	267	high	32	good	poor
(per slice)	164	high	20	good	poor
Vegetable and goats cheese, thin (100g)	250	high	31	good	poor
(per slice)	165	high	21	good	poor
¼ pounder (100g)	240	high	20	good	good
(per burger)	420	high	37	good	good
Saffron rice (100g)	155	medium/high	24	poor	poor
Sausage roll (100g)	300	high	25	poor	poor
(per roll)	370	high	30	poor	poor
Shepherds pie, beef (100g)	95	high	10	poor	poor
(per small pie)	180	high	18	poor	poor
Shepherds pie, lamb (100g)	100	high	11	poor	poor
(per small pie)	220	high	24	poor	poor
Spring roll (100g)	230	high	25	poor	poor
(per roll)	400	high	50	poor	poor
Vegetable pakora (100g)	265	high	20	poor	poor
(per pakora)	50	high	5	poor	poor
Vegetable samosa (100g)	225	high	25	poor	poor
(per samosa)	69	high	7	poor	poor

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