Fast foods are often junk foods and they are loaded with cholesterol, fats, calories, and salt. Know the fats, cholesterol, calories and salt present in fast food and junk food items (Cholesterol, fats, calories, and salt in McDonald's Big Mac & French Fries , Doughnuts, Oreo cookies, Vanila Shake, Peanut Butter etc,.) in the following table.
The values in the table have been compiled from manufacturers brochures and Agricultural Handbook 8-21. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Human Nutrition Information Service.- Composition of Foods: Fast Foods - Raw, Processed
Item
| Choles-
terol
(mg) | Fat
(g) | Calories | Sodium
(mg) |
| Meat Pie | 106 | 25 | | |
| Tossed salad, no dressing (1½ cup) | 0 | 0.2 | 32 | 53 |
| Pizza supreme (1/3 regular) | 16 | 14 | | |
| English muffin w/ butter | 13 | 5.8 | 189 | 386 |
| Burrito w/ beans cheese | 13.5 | 5.8 | 188 | 584 |
| Grilled chicken breast sandwich, plain | 60 | 7.0 | 288 | 758 |
| Scrambled egg | 200 | 7.6 | 100 | 105 |
Hamburger,
lower fat, plain | 60 | 10.0 | 320 | 670 |
| Hamburger, plain | 44 | 17 | 275 | 387 |
| French fries, regular | 0 | 12.0 | 235 | 124 |
| Taco salad (1½ cup) | 4 | 13.1 | 288 | 886 |
| Roasted beef sandwich, plain | 52 | 13.8 | 346 | 792 |
| Pancakes w/ butter & syrup (3 cakes) | 57 | 14.0 | 519 | 1103 |
| Hot dog | 44 | 14.5 | 242 | 671 |
| Cheeseburger, single patty, plain | 50 | 15.2 | 320 | 500 |
| Chicken, boneless pieces, breaded fried (6 pieces) | 62 | 17.7 | 290 | 542 |
| Sub sandwich w/ cold cuts | 35 | 18.6 | 456 | 1650 |
| Baked potato w/ cheese sauce | 31 | 21.9 | 481 | 701 |
| Fish sandwich w/ tartar sauce | 55 | 22.8 | 431 | 615 |
| Chicken fillet sandwich, plain | 60 | 29.5 | 515 | 957 |
| Cheeseburger,large double patty | 141 | 44 | 706 | 1149 |
Egg & bacon biscuit
(1 biscuit) | 353 | 31.1 | 457 | 999 |
Egg, bacon,
& cheese biscuit
(1 biscuit) | 261 | 31.4 | 477 | 1261 |
| Drinks |
Low calorie cola
(12 oz.) | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 21 |
| Coco Cola Large | 0 | 0.0 | 205 | |
| Diet Coke Large | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | |
| Fanta Large | 0 | 4.5 | 260 | |
| Milk, 2% (1 cup) | 18 | 4.7 | 121 | 122 |
| Vanila shake (10 oz.) | | 12.5 | 474 | |
Chocolate shake
(10 oz.) | 37 | 13.1 | 494 | |