Fast Food Spreadsheet Data Sheet

For this activity, you are going to find nutritional information for a hamburger meal at four fast food
restaurants: McDonalds, Wendys, Burger King, and Back Yard Burger. Your task is to determine
which fast food restaurant has the most nutritious hamburger meal based on recommended
calories and DRVs. These are the items that you will choose from each restaurant.
McDonalds
Wendys
Burger King
Back Yard Burger

Hamburger
Jr. Hamburger
Hamburger
Great Little Burger

Small Fries
Kids Meal Fries
Small French Fries
Waffle Fries (regular)

Small Coca-Cola Classic

Small Cola Soft drink
Small Coca Cola Classic
Pepsi

Go to the dietfacts.com web site at http://www.dietfacts.com/fastfood.asp and collect data for the
nutritional values for each fast food restaurant meal. Use the Search feature to find these items
(not the alphabetical index). Enter the data onto the data collection table below.
Calories

Total
Fat (g)

Cholesterol
(mg)

Sodium
(mg)

Total
Carbs (g)

Dietary
Fiber (g)

Protein
(g)

McDonalds

260

9g

30mg

530mg

33g

1g

13g

Wendys

270

31g

100mg

1220mg

42g

1g

12g

Burger King

290

12g

35mg

560mg

30g

1g

15g

Back Yard
Burger
Small
French Fries
McDonalds

649.5

44.3g

107mg

797mg

36.2g

1.7g

33.5g

320

16g

0mg

210mg

40g

4g

5g

Wendys

530

23g

0mg

450mg

75g

8g

6g

Burger King

230

13g

0mg

380mg

26g

2g

2g

Back Yard
Burger
Small Coke

568

36.7g

0mg

743mg

51.8g

6.8g

4.5g

McDonalds

150

0g

0mg

15mg

40g

0g

0g

Wendys

112

0g

0mg

8mg

29.6g

0g

0g

Burger King

140

0g

0mg

0mg

39g

0g

0g

Back Yard
Burger
Calories/DV
Rs Rec
A Healthier
Meal:
McDonalds
Meal Total

250

0g

0mg

50mg

70g

0g

0g

2,100

65g

300mg

2,400mg

300g

25g

50g

260

9g

30mg

530mg

33g

1g

13g

McDonalds

730

25g

30mg

755mg

113g

5g

18g

Wendys

912

54g

100mg

1678mg

146.6g

9g

18g

Burger King

660

25g

35mg

598mg

95g

3g

17g

1,467.5

81g

107mg

1590mg

158g

8.5g

38g

Hamburger

Back Yard
Burger

We all can benefit from a variety of wholesome foods and nutrients in our diets
every day to help keep us strong, healthy and performing at peak levels. This is why I
think McDonalds burger is more nutritious then the other burgers. McDonalds has less
calories and less fat then the other burgers. However, Backyard Burger is less nutritious
then the other burgers because of its high amount of calories and the increasing amount of
total fat.