America's Unhealthiest Fast Food Breakfasts
Fast food chains have done a very good job of turning breakfast into a game. If only they can create the ultimate crazy breakfast dish, then they can capitalize on the millions of people who pass a fast food joint daily on their way to work. But in this quest to capture the market, they apparently have forgotten about one thing: nutrition.
#9 Dunkin’ Donuts: Maple Sausage Breakfast Sandwich
Calories: 690
Fat: 45 grams
Sodium: 1,090 milligrams
Saturated Fat: 19 grams
Cholesterol: 120 milligrams
#8 Carl’s Jr: Breakfast Burger
A charbroiled all-beef patty, egg, bacon, American cheese, hash brown nuggets, and ketchup on a sesame seed bun.
Calories: 830
Fat: 44 grams
Sodium: 1,540 milligrams
Saturated Fat: 19 grams
Cholesterol: 255 milligrams
#7 Sonic: Ultimate Meat and Cheese Breakfast Burrito
Sonic's burrito contains bacon, sausage chunks, tots, scrambled eggs, and melted cheese wrapped up in a tortilla.
Calories: 800
Fat: 56 grams
Sodium: 2,140 milligrams
Saturated Fat: 18 grams
Cholesterol: 355
#6 Jack in the Box: Steak and Egg Burrito with Salsa
Jack in the Box's breakfast burrito contains a flour tortilla filled with scrambled eggs, steak, chipotle sauce, hash browns, cheddar, pepper jack cheese, side of salsa.
Calories: 800
Fat: 50 grams
Sodium: 1,700 milligrams
Saturated Fat: 14 grams
Cholesterol: 460 milligrams
#5 Chick-Fil-A: Sausage Platter
Chick Fil-A's sausage platter contains scrambled eggs, biscuit and gravy, sausage patty.
Calories: 810
Fat: 54 grams
Sodium: 1,850 milligrams
Saturated Fat: 20 grams
Cholesterol: 385 milligrams
#4 Taco Bell: 12-Pack Cinnabon Delights
Calories: 930
Fat: 53 grams
Sodium: 480 milligrams
Saturated Fat: 13 grams
Cholesterol: 40 milligrams
#3 Subway: Footlong Mega Melt on Flatbread
Subway's Mega Melt contains bacon, pork sausage, omelette, and melted cheese.
Calories: 1,120
Fat: 57 grams
Sodium: 3,230 milligrams
Saturated Fat: 22 grams
Cholesterol: 545 milligrams
#2 McDonald’s: Big Breakfast With Hotcakes and Large Biscuit
McDonald's Big Breakfast includes a buttermilk biscuit, sausage patty, scrambled eggs, hash browns, hotcakes.
Calories: 1,150
Fat: 60 grams
Sodium: 2,260 milligrams
Saturated Fat: 20 grams
Cholesterol: 575 milligrams
#1 Burger King: BK Ultimate Breakfast Platter
A combination of scrambled eggs, hash browns, a sausage patty, a biscuit, and three pancakes with syrup, this also has the dubious distinction of being the unhealthiest item on the Burger King menu, period.
Calories: 1,450
Fat: 84 grams
Sodium: 2,920 milligrams
Saturated Fat: 30 grams
Cholesterol: 505 milligrams