Mac Donald's, Burger King, KFC and Spontini. Here is the calorie count of all the most famous restaurant chain menus to consciously consume your next quick meal
Tear to the rule or habit? What is fast food for you? And when you give in to temptation do you know the calories you are about to ingest?
Let's face one issue at a time, trying to understand how fast food menus impact our monthly diet. It is no coincidence that Yazio (an app that offers an automatic count of the calories of the foods we choose for our meals) has included among the food objectives that we can also select to avoid consuming quick meals and calories for at least a month. A kind of foil with a lot of countdown comparable to the sacrifice of a smoker who commits to abandon the cigarettes for 30 days.
The example is particularly apt because it is shown that i sugars, fats and salt abundantly present in burgers, sweet and carbonated drinks, fried, and slices of pizza act on our brain as a kind of drug: the more we eat it, the more we want to eat it. Know the calories contained in each menu and the percentages of fats and sugars brought in a single meal will make easier to organize our routine food in a correct and balanced manner.
This means that eating fast food is not forbidden, but must necessarily represent an exception to the rule, an exception that must be lived as such. The no categorical instead to the identification of this type of food as comfort food to be indulged whenever we are sad, we are in a hurry or not enough budget to go to the restaurant.
Mac Donald's: the calories of the Big Mac menu
Mac Donald's is transparent about the energy of his meals. We can indeed read the specifications on each individual package of the elements that make up the menus. But how often do we do it? Influenced by the desire to bite our favorite sandwich or to eat the chips before they cool down, we forget to inform us. Let's do it together now.
We have chosen the Big Mac Menu, one of the most loved among all the fast food proposals to understand how many calories brings the classic meal with sandwich, chips and drink.
Let's start from sandwich: 509 calories a portion. The most interesting specific data concern 27 g of proteins (53% of the average daily needs of an adult), 36 g of fat, 10 of which are saturated, 42 g of carbohydrates (only 16% of our needs) and a good 2.3 g of salt (38% of the doses not to be exceeded in one day). A portion of potato chips instead brings 330 calories. Here we find mainly carbohydrates (41 g) and fats (17.5 g). Finally, let's think about the drinks. The classic glass of Coca Cola on tap offered with the menu contains 160 calories with 42 g of carbohydrates and as many sugars. By itself, it covers 47% of our daily sugar requirements.
Summing up, every time we consume one Big Mac Menu, we take about 1000 calories.
In the gallery below, the caloric intake of the other most famous Mac Donald's proposals.
Burger King: the calories of the Whopper Menu
Even Burger King makes no secret of the energy values of his menus and, as in the case of Mac Donald's, we have obtained the information that we report below consulting the tables on the place Official. We took the measurement as a yardstick Whopper sandwich and its menu as it is a real classic of the chain proposed in different versions and dimensions.
The classic sandwich Whopper counts 683 kcal with 31 g of proteins, 57 of carbohydrates and 46 grams of fats of which 10 are saturated. The salt content is also this time around 2.3 g. The chips who accompany him instead have 202 kcal, 0.8 g of salt and 13 grams of 3.6 saturated fats. The glass of Coke expected in the menu, it counts 168 kcal. In total therefore, when we order a menu Whopper from Burger King, we take about 1053 calories.
In the gallery below, other calorie counts related to famous products offered by the chain menu:
How many calories does Spontini's pizza have?
If once they said pizza, the mind immediately returned to the restaurant with a wood-burning oven under the house. But now times have changed so much that it can happen that a small pizzeria serving slices in the street Spontini in Milan turns into one a real chain present in the main shopping centers and identifiable in all respects as fast food. The basic menu is very simple: a normal or abundant slice of pizza and a drink choice. So, here's all we have to expect by ordering a slice of pizza margherita accompanied by a Coca Cola.
Since it is not a fast food like the ones mentioned above, we can not count on the precise calculation of the calories per portion. But if we consider the fact that a slice of pizza margherita contains about 250 calories, it is also simple to calculate the ration plentiful Spontini that will count more or less 375.
If we add then the 160 calories of Coca Cola, we arrive at 410 Kcal of the normal menu and at 535 of the abundant ration.
KFC: all the calories of fried chicken
The fried foods of the most famous colonel of the fast food chains have also conquered Italy between a bite and other chicken thighs, nibbles and fins. Although here too all the nutritional values of the main menus and products are specified, the calculation is more complicated due to the failure to calculate the calories contained in some of the complete menus most common. But do not panic, we thought about it. Here is how much energy contains the classic menu with the Bucket for 2 people.
Let's start from the piece, which is the classic combination of 4 pieces Origina Recipe and 4 Tenders for a total of 575 Kcal a portion. Which means that the entire Bucket contains 1150. But before summing up, add a portion of chips that we assume can add 200 calories to which we will also add 160 of the drink. So correctly dividing the Bucket into 2 servings, the relative menu contains about 960 calories per serving, for a total of 1920.
However, from KFC it is also possible to taste different sandwiches and menus. In the gallery above the calories of the most delicious proposals:
Tips and tricks
Now that we have read all the calories that are counted in the fast food menus, we can deal with ourselves. How many times do we exceed? How many times do we consider them a complete meal to give us at the end of a stressful day? If we think that a nice plate of pasta with tomato contains about 350 calories and a considerable amount of fat less, perhaps it is appropriate to review our concept of gourmet cuddle.
Or if nothing else, think of some small trick to deal with the fast food situation with a pinch of cunning and foresight.
A recommended trick? Be content with sandwich and water. Saying no to fizzy and sugary chips and drinks means taking around 350 calories less in one meal. If instead it is precisely to these that we can not give up, we order a menu with chicken nuggets (the recommended amount is from 4 to 6) and choose light drinks avoiding to take too many calories with the sum of all the classic elements.
Fundamental then, avoid adding snacks and desserts to the menus, which are already very caloric. If you really can not resist the temptation, divide into two menus and dessert: reduce the calories taken in half without renouncing the pleasure of tasting.
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