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McDonald's is home to some pretty amazing fast food items, including a pretty impressive breakfast menu. Its breakfast selection is so good that it's available all-day long for customers to enjoy. But, not everything on the menu should be ordered if you're watching your weight, especially when it comes to their hotcakes...
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You can never go wrong with pancakes when you go out to eat for breakfast. But, when you order McDonald’s hotcakes, you’re signing up for a lot of unwanted calories and grams of fat. One serving of Mickey D’s hotcakes has about 600 calories, 16 grams of fat, and 102 grams of carbs. Not only does this meal get its calories from the hotcakes themselves, but also from the syrup and butter that comes with it. The syrup adds 190 calories and 46 grams of carbs, while the salted whipped butter adds 80 calories, 9 grams of fat, and 75 mg of sodium.
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If you still can’t resist getting an order of McDonald’s hotcakes for breakfast, just make sure you’re not getting them with the Big Breakfast meal. This meal is so bad for you that it was listed as “The One Menu Item You Should Never Order at McDonald’s” by Eat This, Not That! They said that this menu item is a “lingering reminder that the Golden Arches is the infamous chain that invented ‘supersizing'" and that it shouldn't be ordered for its high calorie and fat count.
So, how bad is it? A single Big Breakfast meal, which consists of three hotcakes, hotcake syrup and butter, scrambled eggs, hashbrowns, biscuits, and sausage, “wipes out your entire day’s recommended allowance of fat,” according to Eat This, Not That! It also has 126% of a single day’s worth of saturated fat, too! Not to mention that the whole meal weighs in at 1,350 calories, which is more than half of the recommended daily calorie intake (2,000 calories).
Wow, that's a lot of calories -- and food! Though the nutrition facts for McDonald's hotcakes are pretty unhealthy, you can still enjoy them in moderation. And when you do order them, make sure that you're going easy on the syrup and butter!
