Most Healthy Food at Burger King

Well to start off with it is a question as to what you call the most healthy. Many people have different ideas of what they consider to be healthy, whether that be the items with the lowest number of calories, lowest amount of fat or indeed the carb content of food. In this article we look through the figures as provided by Burger King themselves (they are quite transparent as to the numbers that are contained in each item) and analyse the data from the different categories so that we can present it to you in a way you might find both interesting and surprising!

Please note that when quoting values, although Burger King quote their values to 1 decimal place, we have rounded their figures for ease of display. After all half a calorie is really neither here nor there with some of the numbers!

At the end of the article you can find a summary of which items tend to come out top in all categories – low calorie, low carb and low fat.

Calories

Beef, Chicken, Fish and Veggie Options Under 500 Calories

Firstly we will look at the main meal type options as classified above. In this case we have sifted through the data and come up with the options that contain less than 500 calories. In order of total calories from lowest to highest they are as follows:

Garden Salad – 18
Grilled Chicken Salad – 113
Hamburger – 275
Chicken Nuggets (6) – 285
Sweet Chilli Chicken Wrap – 298
Cheeseburger – 316
Whopper Junior – 344
Caesar Chicken Wrap – 346
Rodeo – 360
Chicken Nugget Burger – 367
Chicken Burger – 392
Sweet Chilli Crispy Chicken – 411
Quarter Pound Cheeseburger – 436
Chicken Nuggets (9) – 442
Double Cheeseburger – 460
Big King – 473
Bacon Double Cheese – 477
Sweet Chilli Chicken Royale – 480
Veggie Wrap – 494
Ocean Catch – 499

As you would expect, the salads do well and the chicken dishes are lower in calories than the beef dishes. Also go smaller (e.g. Whopper Jr) and you will obviously eat less calories too!

The one that you might not expect is the Veggie Wrap coming in at 494 calories, nearly 150 more than the caesar chicken wrap.

Sides Dips and Extras Under 250 Calories

We have restricted the list of sides, dips and extras to show only those under 250 calories, as obviously these are extras! So on top of whatever else you have you need to remember to add this lot on…

Tomato Ketchup Dip – 27
BK Fresh Apple Fries – 28
BBQ Dip – 30
Add Bacon – 35
Sweet Chilli Dip – 60
Add Cheese – 83
SATISFRIES (small) – 215
Fries (small) – 222
Onion Rings (5) – 232
Chilli Cheese Bites (4) – 238

Unfortunately a lot of restaurants are no longer serving the SATISFRIES as they were given the option to stop serving them by Burger King when the take up was not as much as they hoped. However, small fries at 222 are only an extra 7 calories.

Soft Drinks Under 125 Calories

Ok so we chose a cut-off of 125 calories for this section as this excluded around 50% of the drinks listed for sale. Most of the higher calorie items were different sizes (or larger servings) of Coca-Cola and Sprite and those under 125 calories are the following:

Water – 0
Regular Diet Coke – 1
Large Diet Coke – 1
Super Diet Coke – 2
Alive – 63
Regular Sprite – 112
Tropicana – 113
Milk – 123

Breakfasts – Calories

With regards to breakfast, the only item that is under 250 calories per serving is the Bacon Butty with Heinz Ketchup which comes in at 216 Kcal. Next best is 6 Mini pancakes and syrup which contain 269 calories – the rest of the breakfast options come in at over 300 calories (most of them a lot more) unless you count the add-ons like hash browns which contain 192 calories for a regular serving.

Desserts and Shakes – Calories

You would expect desserts to be heavily loaded with calories (although perhaps shakes less so) and for the most part you would be right but there are some options that appear to not actually be too bad. Top of the list coming in as the only item on the dessert menu at less than 100 calories is the Ice cream cone. Ice cream often contains less calories than people imagine – often because it contains less cream than you might imagine and more ice!

There are a couple of desserts hovering around the 130 level namely the strawberry sundae at 133 and the regular frozen lemonade at 138. You could also just sneak in a chocolate sundae at 153 calories but after that (apart from the large frozen lemonade) you are looking at over 200 calories and up to a whopping 612 for a large chocolate shake.

 Breakfast – Carbs

 Low Fat Options

Soft Drinks – Low Fat

Generally speaking soft drinks do not contain much fat and the only soft drink option that contains above 1g of fat is the milk at 4.3g.

You are never going to go wrong if you opt for water though!