Desserts
McDonald`s Healthy Snacks and Breakfast
Many nutrition professionals agree that McDonald`s food can be part of a healthy diet based on the sound nutrition principles of balance, variety and moderation. The healthy snacks McDonald`s serves ranges from the breakfast menu to the desserts served. McDonald`s varied menu and range of serving sizes make it easy to fit our food into a well rounded diet and to create a range of meal combinations that fall within recommended guidelines for calories, fat and other nutrients.
Today`s dietary guidelines refer to your overall pattern of eating. For instance, the guideline for adults to consume between 20% and 35% of calories from fat isn`t intended to be used as criteria for individual foods, or even meals. For example, if your goal is to consume no more than 30 percent of calories from fat and your breakfast contains a larger percent of calories from fat, that`s OK. You can balance it out with a lower-fat lunch or dinner. What`s important is to keep sight of your overall daily intake. The McDonald`s meal suggestions below list their corresponding levels of calories, fat, saturated fat, cholesterol and sodium. The % Daily Values show how these meals fit into a healthy, balanced 2,000-calorie diet. Your own daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
McDonald`s Desserts
Dessert is a course that typically comes at the end of a meal, usually consisting of sweet food but sometimes of a strongly-flavored one, such as some cheeses. The word comes from the Old French desservir, "to clear the table." Common desserts include cakes, cookies, fruits, pastries and candies. The word dessert is most commonly used for this course in U.S., Canada, Australia, and Ireland, while sweet, pudding or afters would be more typical terms in the UK and some other Commonwealth countries, including India. According to Debrett`s, pudding is the proper term, dessert is only to be used if the course consists of fruit, and sweet is colloquial. This, of course, reflects the upper-class/upper-middle-class usage. More commonly, the words simply form a class shibboleth; pudding being the upper-class and upper-middle-class word to use for sweet food served after the main course, sweet, afters and dessert being considered non-U. However, dessert is considered slightly better than the other two, owing to many young people, whose parents say pudding, acquiring the word from American media.
McChicken
McChicken is the name of a chicken sandwich sold by McDonald`s in many countries. The sandwich consists of a chicken patty, lettuce, and mayonnaise. The current McChicken sandwich recipe is somewhat spicier than the original. Additionally, in United States, the sandwich is somewhat smaller than it was previously, as it is now on the Dollar Menu, which offers various food products for the price of US $1.00. In Canada, with McChicken still its original size, the one on the dollar menu is called "Junior Chicken"
The shaped chicken patty in the McChicken sandwich used to be 50% white meat and 50% dark meat. Recently McDonald`s have advertised the McChicken to now contain only 100% white meat. The sandwich was originally introduced in 1980, later removed (and replaced with different chicken sandwiches made with an all-white-meat grilled or fried chicken breast), then reintroduced.
