McDonald’s Nutrition Menu (2026) – Calories, Macros & Full Nutrition Guide

Complete nutrition facts for every item on McDonald’s current US menu, calories, fat, carbs, sodium, and protein, sourced from McDonald’s official U.S. Nutrition Calculator. Use the tables below to look up any item directly, or jump to a specific goal: lowest calories, best protein-per-calorie, lowest sodium, or keto/low-carb guidance.

One thing worth knowing before you search elsewhere: several widely-shared nutrition guides still reference McDonald’s Premium Salads, the Grilled Chicken Sandwich, and the Egg White Delight McMuffin. None of the three are on the current official menu. Every figure below is checked against what McDonald’s actually sells right now, not a legacy menu.

Checked against McDonald’s official Nutrition Calculator, October 30, 2026.

Rather than scrolling through every table, jump to the tool below to filter all 80 items by your own goals, or compare any items head-to-head.

Quick Answer

• Lowest-calorie item, any category: Apple Slices, 15 cal.
• Best protein-per-calorie ratio, menu-wide: McCrispy Strips (3pc), 12.9 cal/g (400 cal, 31g protein).
• Highest sodium item: Big Breakfast with Hotcakes, 2,090mg, 91% of the FDA’s daily recommended limit.
• Highest fat item: Big Breakfast with Hotcakes, 64g.
• Genuinely zero-calorie, zero-sugar drinks: Diet Coke, Unsweetened Iced Tea, DASANI Water.
• Allergens disclosed: all 9 FDA-recognized major allergens, on every product page.

Full Nutrition Menu by Category

Burgers

Chicken & Fish Sandwiches

McNuggets®, McCrispy® Strips & Snack Wraps

Breakfast

McDonald’s own product page for the Big Breakfast shows both 760 (in its descriptive text) and 1,060 (in its Nutrition Summary widget and official Nutrition Calculator). The calculator figures are fuller and more directly sourced, so this guide uses 1,060 calories, 26g protein, 48g fat, 131g carbs, and 1,540mg sodium.

Fries & Sides

Happy Meal® (full configured meal: entrée, kids’ fries, apple slices, milk)

Sweets & Treats

Note: several other Sweets & Treats items (Vanilla Cone variants, additional sundae options) exist on the menu without full macro data confirmed in this guide; calorie-only figures for those are in the main McDonald’s Menu guide.

McCafé®

Drinks

Sauces & Condiments

Caesar Sauce Lineup (Limited Time)

Cross-Menu Extremes

Across the full menu:

One caveat on the best protein pick: McCrispy Strips has the best protein efficiency on the menu, but it also carries 1,320mg of sodium in a single 3-piece order, over half the FDA’s daily recommended limit (2,300mg). Proportionally that’s still a slightly better sodium-to-protein ratio than a plain Hamburger (38.4mg sodium per gram of protein vs. 42.5mg), so it’s not disproportionate for what you get, but the absolute number matters if you’re tracking sodium specifically.

Hidden Sodium: Which Items Are Saltier Than Their Calorie Count Suggests

Calories don’t predict sodium. Ranked by milligrams of sodium per calorie, the highest ratios on the menu:

Two commonly recommended picks deserve a second look. McCrispy Strips (best protein-per-calorie, menu-wide) and Egg McMuffin (best protein-per-calorie, breakfast) are both efficient on calories-to-protein, but both are also among the saltiest items on the menu per calorie, Egg McMuffin more so than the fried McCrispy chicken sandwich, which most people would assume is the saltier item on sight. If sodium matters to you as much as protein efficiency, neither is an automatic choice.

At the other end: Fruit & Maple Oatmeal has by far the lowest sodium density on the menu (0.47 mg/cal), less than a sixth of McCrispy Strips despite being a similar-sized item. It loses on protein efficiency (covered above) but genuinely earns its “lighter” reputation on sodium specifically, a rare case on this menu where a health-sounding item actually checks out on the metric people assume it wins on.

Fat as a Share of Calories: Where the Calories Are Actually Coming From

Two items with the same total calories can get those calories very differently. Ranked by the percentage of total calories coming from fat:

Chicken McNuggets get more than half their calories from fat, a genuine surprise given how often nuggets get treated as the “lighter” fried option compared to a sandwich. Sausage-based sandwiches cluster at the top of this ranking, meaning the sausage patty itself, not the biscuit or muffin, is doing most of the caloric work in those sandwiches. For context, McDonald’s own Daily Value guidance treats 20-35% of calories from fat as a typical target range for a single meal; the sausage items above sit well above that range.

Highest Protein-Per-Calorie by Category

Highest Raw Protein by Category

The ranking above rewards efficiency, not quantity. If your goal is maximum protein regardless of calories, the category leaders are different:

Two categories have a different leader for raw protein than for ratio: in Chicken & Fish, the plain McCrispy has the best ratio (18.1 cal/g) but the Bacon Caesar McCrispy has more total protein (34g vs. 26g). In Breakfast, the Egg McMuffin has the best ratio (18.2 cal/g) but Big Breakfast with Hotcakes has more than double the raw protein (36g vs. 17g), at the cost of over four times the calories. Burgers and Nuggets/Strips don’t split, the same item (Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese, McCrispy Strips) leads both the ratio and the raw-protein columns in those two categories.

Best of Both: Protein-Efficient AND Lower-Sodium

The Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese ranks #2 menu-wide on both protein efficiency and sodium efficiency at once, a stronger combined pick than McCrispy Strips, this page’s best protein-per-calorie item, which ranks #2 on sodium efficiency by comparison, behind the Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese itself.

Why this matters: McCrispy Strips wins outright on calorie efficiency, but it’s actually saltier per gram of protein than the Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese, a genuinely counterintuitive result given fried chicken’s “lighter” reputation next to a double burger. If you’re optimizing for protein without stacking on sodium, the Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese is the stronger pick of the two, not McCrispy Strips.

Fruit & Maple Oatmeal technically has the single lowest sodium-per-protein-gram figure on the menu (25.0), but its very low raw protein (6g) and weak calorie ratio (53.3 cal/g) mean it doesn’t functionally compete as a protein source; the six items above are the real contenders if both goals matter to you simultaneously.

Lower-Sodium Choices

McDonald’s doesn’t have a dedicated low-sodium menu. Apple Slices (0mg, the only zero-sodium food item) and Fruit & Maple Oatmeal (lowest density of any real meal item) are the genuine low-sodium picks, not the items that just happen to be lower-calorie. Hash Browns (310mg) and Hamburger (510mg) are the lowest absolute-sodium options in their categories, though neither has an especially low density once you check the ratio.

Sauces add up fast: a single dipping cup can run 30–120mg, and stacking two or three on an already sodium-dense item like McCrispy Strips or Egg McMuffin compounds a number that’s already high before the sauce.

Low-Carb and Keto: What Actually Works on the Current Menu

McDonald’s does not publish official nutrition figures for customized builds (no bun, no muffin, etc.). Any exact “2g net carbs” figure you see for a bunless burger is someone else’s estimate, not an official number, no matter how precise it looks.

Realistic current-menu approach, based on the verified whole-item carb counts in the tables above:

• Any burger without the bun removes the largest single carb source in that item.
• Any chicken or fish sandwich without the bun works the same way.
• Breakfast sandwiches without the muffin, biscuit, or McGriddle cake cut carbs substantially.
• The Sausage Burrito without the tortilla leaves egg, sausage, and vegetables, genuinely low-carb.
• Nuggets and McCrispy Strips are naturally lower-carb since there’s no bread to remove.

Skip for keto: hotcakes, breaded coatings if eaten whole, fries, desserts, sweetened drinks, most McCafé specialty drinks (whole milk alone adds real carbs), and any sauce beyond mustard.

Use McDonald’s official Nutrition Calculator’s own ingredient-removal feature for the most reliable adjusted figure, not a third-party estimate.

Nutrition Goals: Quick Decision Table

Match your goal to the pick below:

No single item wins on every metric here. Match the row above to whichever number you’re personally optimizing for, rather than defaulting to the same “best protein” pick for every goal.

Allergens: The Official 9

McDonald’s discloses all 9 FDA-recognized major allergens on every product page: eggs, dairy, wheat, soy, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, shellfish, and sesame. No item on the US menu is certified gluten-free, and cross-contact is possible regardless of what you order. See the full allergen breakdown by item if you’re checking for a specific restriction.

The one surprise worth repeating: World Famous Fries contain wheat and dairy from the flavoring in the frying oil, not from the potato. It’s the single most common wrong assumption about this menu.

FAQ

What’s the healthiest thing to order at McDonald’s? Depends on the goal. Lowest-calorie: Apple Slices or Hamburger. Best protein-per-calorie: McCrispy Strips. Lowest sodium: Apple Slices or Hash Browns. There’s no single “healthiest” item; it depends on what you’re optimizing for.

Does McDonald’s still have salads? No. Premium Salads, the Grilled Chicken Sandwich, and the Egg White Delight McMuffin are not on the current official US menu, despite still being recommended in some outdated guides.

Can I eat keto at McDonald’s? Yes, with bunless/breadless versions of existing items, but McDonald’s doesn’t publish official customized nutrition figures, so treat any specific “net carb” number for a modified order as an estimate.

What’s the highest-sodium item at McDonald’s? Big Breakfast with Hotcakes, at 2,070mg, 90% of the FDA’s daily recommended limit in one item.

Are McDonald’s fries gluten-free? No. They contain wheat from the frying oil’s flavoring agent.

Is this nutrition information official or estimated? The figures in the category tables above are official, McDonald’s-published numbers for standard builds. Anything for a customized order is a third-party estimate unless it comes from the Nutrition Calculator’s own adjustment feature.

The Short Version

No single McDonald’s item wins on every nutrition metric. McCrispy Strips and Egg McMuffin lead on protein efficiency, but both are relatively sodium-dense; sausage-based items also get a large share of their calories from fat. Apple Slices are the clear low-calorie, zero-sodium option. For everything else, choose based on the metric that matters most to you rather than a single “healthiest” pick.

Nutrition data comes from McDonald’s official U.S. Nutrition Calculator and reflects the standard U.S. menu checked on October 30, 2026. Formulations and availability can change. This is an independent informational guide, not medical or dietary advice. For current prices, see the full McDonald’s menu.