McDonald’s Big Breakfast: nutrition and allergens

Nutrition facts

Percentages are the share of the FDA Daily Value for adults and children 4 and over, worked out from McDonald’s published amounts (how % Daily Value works). A dash means McDonald’s does not publish that value for this item.

Using the FDA’s rule of thumb that 5% of the Daily Value or less per serving is low and 20% or more is high, one serving is high in cholesterol (162%), added sugars (108%), saturated fat (90%), sodium (67%), fat (62%), protein (52%) and carbohydrate (48%). Add it up with other items in the McDonald’s nutrition calculator.

Allergens

According to McDonald’s, the Big Breakfast contains milk, egg, wheat and soy.

McDonald’s provides supplier ingredient information for the nine major US food allergens (egg, milk, wheat, soy, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, shellfish and sesame), but warns that its kitchens share cooking and preparation areas, equipment and utensils, so any item may come into contact with other foods, including allergens. It does not claim any US menu item as vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, halal or kosher.

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Ingredients

Scrambled Eggs: Eggs, citric acid. | Biscuit: Enriched flour (bleached wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), cultured nonfat buttermilk (cultured skim milk, nonfat dry milk, modified food starch, salt, mono and diglycerides, locust bean gum, carrageenan), palm oil, palm kernel oil, water, leavening (sodium bicarbonate, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate), contains 2% or less: salt, sugar, modified cellulose, wheat protein isolate, natural flavor, modified food starch, xanthan gum, soy lecithin. | Hash Browns: Potatoes, vegetable oil (canola oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, natural beef flavor [wheat and milk derivatives]*), salt, corn flour, dehydrated potato, dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (maintain color), extractives of black pepper. *natural beef flavor contains hydrolyzed wheat and hydrolyzed milk as starting ingredients | Sausage Patty: Pork, water, salt, spices, dextrose, sugar, rosemary extract, natural flavors. | Salted Butter: Cream, salt. | Clarified Butter: Pasteurized cream (butterfat). | Hotcake Syrup: Corn syrup, sugar, water, natural flavors, potassium sorbate (preservative), caramel color.

Other items in Breakfast at McDonald’s

By calories, the Big Breakfast ranks 21 of 22 in McDonald’s Breakfast section, from lowest to highest. The table shows the 9 items nearest to it; each item is compared at its first listed size.

Nutrition for all 22 items in Breakfast at McDonald’s

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