McDonald’s Vanilla Cone: 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 added sugars (34%) and is low in potassium, sodium and dietary fiber. Add it up with other items in the McDonald’s nutrition calculator.

Allergens

According to McDonald’s, the Vanilla Cone contains milk and wheat.

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

Vanilla Reduced Fat Ice Cream: Milk, sugar, cream, corn syrup, natural flavor, mono and diglycerides, cellulose gum, guar gum, carrageenan, vitamin A palmitate. | Ice Cream Cone: Enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), tapioca starch, sugar, contains 2% or less: canola oil, leavening (baking soda, ammonium bicarbonate), salt, annatto extract (color), natural flavor, corn syrup.

Other items in Sweets & Treats at McDonald’s

By calories, the Vanilla Cone ranks 2 of 10 in McDonald’s Sweets & Treats section, from lowest to highest.

Nutrition for all 10 items in Sweets & Treats at McDonald’s

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Soft serve, sundaes and blended frozen desserts at other chains

McDonald’s is one of 7 chains on this site that sell soft serve, sundaes and blended frozen desserts. Of the 115 at other chains, 7 have fewer calories and 108 have the same or more than the Vanilla Cone, comparing each at its first listed size; portions differ, so check the serving on each item’s page.

Compare all soft serve, sundaes and blended frozen desserts side by side (116 items at 7 chains)