Here, we focus in on the biggest (and littlest) burger offenders McDonald’s has to offer as well as the side orders that put that extra hole in your belt. So take a deep breath and suck in that tummy for the last time. You’re about to take an unhealthy tour of the fast food you haven’t seen since Super Size Me made it infamous.
Don’t let the diminutive appearance of the Filet-O-Fish fool you… this sucker packs a punch in terms of fat, sodium, and calories, out-scoring its beefy counterparts. It’s one of the worst sandwich in the calories per 100g department. The whole thing is 410 calories and trust me, it’s not a very big sandwich. You’ll also have ingested almost one third of your recommended daily allowance of sodium. And you haven’t even had your fries yet!
Double the Fun
Most of us wouldn’t have much trouble discarding the fragrant Filet-o-Fish, especially after reading about its less-than nutritional qualities. But who among us hasn’t salivated, hungover or not, at the thought of McDonald’s flagship burger, the Big Mac. Why not double your displeasure and take a look at the fattier, beefier Double Big Mac?
Like the poster says, flavour isn’t the only thing this (double) beef stack is overflowing with. How about 40 grams of fat and 90 percent of your daily value of saturated and trans fat? And that’s probably not a daily value you should be approaching too often, especially when Health Canada and countless other health authorities have warned us about the risks of consuming such fats, namely heart disease.
Not to be outdone, the sodium content of the four-patty phenom weighs in at 1520 mg, or about two-thirds of all the sodium you ought to be having in one day. But there’s a bonus: high blood pressure! And you guessed it, that’s a factor in heart disease, stroke, and kidney disease. Yikes.
Double the heartburn
When you buy a Double Quarter Pounder Burger with cheese, you don’t really think that you’re about to eat a half pound of meat.
By the time you begin to feel the burger sink into your gut, you realize how much meat you’ve eaten. But of course you don’t feel that guilty. At least, your burger had bread, ketchup and three pickle slices! That means a portion of vegetables and grains, right?
How does your body feel after having eaten, in one go, 69 per cent of your fat daily value? Well, you’ll get heartburn, for one. And you won’t likely be hungry for several hours. If and when you do eat again, you’ll probably have to stick to apples or celery.
This burger is hard on your body because it contains half of the recommended amount of sodium for the average person in a day. Not to mention it shares the title of most saturated and trans fat with the next burger on our hit list.
760 calories? Think about it!
It takes around four hours of work to empty your stomach. Don’t be lazy! For the average 150lb person, you’d have to bike from Mount Royal to Repentigny at practically light speed to burn all the calories in this one sandwich. Or, you know, you could just have sex for almost nine hours.
The King of McDo
Tiny, but deadly
A harmless light snack?
Nope! The mischievous Pesto Crispy Chicken McMini is anything but harmless at 350 calories each! This baby burger is more dangerous than you’d think.
The oily appearance might give you a hint, but the fat ugly truth goes way beyond this oily sandwich. Once you get past the greasiness of the sandwich at first glance and try taking an actual bite, there’s not much to write home about. It tastes even greasier than it looks!
There you have it. You’ve eaten your little McMini in two bites. Feeling full though? Definitely not. You might be inclined to order another…or how about two more?
If you want to get rid of that sudden rush of guilt after having almost a third of your recommended daily intake of fat in no time, you can always jump on the first treadmill you see and start running. At a moderate speed, you’ll burn it all off in about 40 minutes.
So next time you come across these deceptive little snacks, you might want to fight the temptation to buy one and go for some veggies instead.
If we reached one conclusion about our side-orders, it’s that they all looked/sounded/smelled better than they tasted. Usually.
The Cinnamon Melts resembled big chunky poutine, but not in a good way.
At 460 calories, I’d like my food to at least be pretty…
And the large chocolate Triple-Thick milkshake almost hurt our experimenter in the process of trying to suck it up a straw. One of these babies will meet more than half of the average adult's daily caloric requirements (1160 calories!). And it's not even considered a dessert; it's listed in the drink menu!
McConclusion: Pass the Pepcid
It says a lot when five full-time student who are on a budget leave food untouched. Even with our lowered standards, we had trouble viewing what McDonald's served as actual "food" (except Tara who's still lovin' it). Going to McDonald's already knowing the sheer amount of bad stuff in every menu item we ordered made eating the...product...even more interesting (or painful). For some of us, it was our first time in ages dining in the humble abode of Ronald McDonald.
We have an idea for McDonald's: Don't make the Playland just for kids! We grownups need to burn off all the crap you're feeding us too! Gymland anyone?
If the pictures haven't scared you off, take a look at the cold hard facts. Statistics don't lie! Anyway, we hope by now that you aren't lovin' it, and if you still are, at least thinkin' about it next time you go to McDo.
Check out a fun montage video of our unhealthy McDonald's experience:
http://wwwo.youtube.com/watch?v=xW-lm6esyaM
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