Last time I explained why you shouldn’t eat at McDonalds. This time I’ll be giving you some examples of why you shouldn’t eat at Burger King. In the McDonalds post I told you why I quit eating at the McDonalds. My main reason was the high amount of junk in the food. The calories, the fat, the carbohydrates and the proteins. It’s just unbelievable.
When I saw the numbers the first thing that came into mind was to check the other franchises. So I went to the Burger King nutritional information site and wrote a couple of things down for you people out there.
Just like I did with the McDonalds post, let’s start with a medium sized menu. We’re not taking the one with the highest calories. We’ll take a look at the good old Whopper with cheese and mayo.
WHOPPER Sandwich with Cheese: 760 calories
Med French Fries (Salted): 360 calories
Med Coca Cola: 200 calories
Total calories: 1320
Right, 1320 calories for a medium sized WHOPPER menu. Let’s compare that with the daily calorie intake for a woman, which is about 2000. I think you see where I’m getting at. Eating 1 medium whopper menu will get you 67% of you daily calorie intake. Right now I’m only talking about the calories. I’m not going to make it more complicated by comparing the salt, protein and carbohydrates intake.
Now that we know the calories for a medium WHOPPER menu, let’s jump to a bigger sized menu. This time we’ll be looking at the TRIPLE WHOPPER Sandwich with cheese and mayo menu, and to make things worse, let’s go king size. Please don’t be shocked by the numbers you are about to read.
TRIPLE WHOPPER® Sandwich with Cheese: 1230 calories
King Size French Fries (Salted): 600 calories
King Size Coca Cola: 390 calories
Total calories (let me get my calculator): 2220
My calculator almost gave up on me there. A shocking 2220 calories for a TRIPLE WHOPPER® Sandwich king sized menu. That’s 111% of a women’s daily intake. I know this menu isn’t made for the average woman, but there are plenty of you out there that eat this menu. And you wonder why 60% of the population of the United States is overweight.
What I’ve learned from the Burger King nutritional information site? Not much. I already knew that it would be bad. But I didn’t think it would be this bad. What I did learn is that Burger King can be way worse than McDonalds. And just like ended my McDonalds post. Please, please don’t eat Burger King if you value your health.
Once again a bonus for you guys and girls
May 7th, 2008 at 10:13 pm
I think it’s a great idea restaurants are being asked to post info. It’s amazing how hard restaurant chains are fighting to hide their nutrition information. It’s hard to eat well when eating out, especially when you have dietary needs or want to watch your calorie intake. Often food items that seem healthy and are marketed that way are not. For this reason, my company just launched a new service called Wellternatives that lets people find nutrition info for thousands of chain restaurants — right from their cell phone or on the web. It also makes recommendations for a healthier alternative to your favorite restaurant meals, hence the name… Wellternatives. Would love to hear what you think of it! Sara
May 7th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Quite funny you mention the bit where restaurants have to put the nutritional information on a sheet or something. Because just couple days ago I read about it in a dutch paper. And I think they should make it so that people can see what junk they are shoving in their mouths.
And about your company, I love the idea. There should be more companies such as yours.
August 8th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Everyday fast food is not ok. But never go to BK or Mac is too far taken. Further on a little bit childish comment ´let me get my calculator´ or ´my calculator almost gave up´. Very bad humor from the land of the free. Nobody forces you to eat fast food. And compare it with non fast food restaurants… Do you have figures of all of them? I don´t think so. And to give fast food restaurant the blame of the overweight of 60% of the Americans. So easy en what nonsens! I think lack of education by parents, self control and self responsibility, doing sport (instead of watching..!) are more evident reasons for the overweight. People are not puppets. You can make your own decisions. Like always, too much of something is always bad, but don´t blame fast food for problems which people are selfresponsible for.
August 8th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
True, having fast food every day is even worse than having it once a while. But me personally, I try not to eat it at all. About the calculator comment, have you seen how much calories there are in other foods? And it’s not only the calories that is ridiculously high in the Burger King food, but the rest as well, think of the fat or the sodium. And it being the only reason why 60% of the Americans are overweight, it’s not. It’s not the only reason, but it’s a huge chunk of the problem…Thanks for commenting on this post by the way. Looking forward to see more of them.