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Burger King Calories

Article by Sky Taylor, Diet Bites

Meal Planning for Dieters at Burger King

This fast food restaurant has some very tasty choices on their menu that can fit into almost any diet or weight loss plan. The key is choosing selections which are lower in calories and fat content so that you get the most food, as well as the healthiest choices for your plan.

Some Diet Rules of Thumb when dining at Burger King include:

- The smaller the burger, typically the fewer calories and fat grams contained inside.

- Ordering water, or a diet soda over a small shake can save you more than three hundred calories. For example, a small vanilla shake contains 370 calories while a hamburger contains 260. Even the cheeseburger contains far fewer calories in comparison - coming in at 310 Kcals.

- Diet trouble on the 'double', 'triple', extra large, and large menu items - and that applies to ALL fast food menus. Ordering such puts one at risk for double-d bras, triple weight gain, extra large as well as large shirts and ties. Be kind to your body and remember - your skeletal frame can only support so much weight before crumbling.

Nutrition Data Can Assist in Fighting Weight Gain & Supporting Weight Loss

- Ask for a 'Nutrition Information' sheet before ordering so that you can compare calories, sodium content, fat content, and types of fat content. At the Burger King restaurant that we visited, they included the Nutrition Information sheet on the tray.

- Keep in mind that the nutritional information is based on how the selection is normally prepared by the Burger King staff. Also make note that menu selections tend to be very generous in comparison to many other fast food restaurants.

A great example is their fish sandwich which is much larger than the typical fish sandwiches served at many fast food restaurants. Sharing or saving for later are great suggestions that will allow many menu selections to be enjoyed 'now' and 'later' without breaking the caloric bank on calories and fat.

- Watch those sauce selections as some are very steep in energy values.

Burger King Dipping Sauce & Salad Dressing Calories:

These range from lean to fat in nutritional values; the following data is based on a per ounce serving unless otherwise noted:

Dipping Sauce

Kcals

Fat Gram Total

Barbeque

40

0

Honey Mustard

90

6

Sweet & Sour

45

0

Ranch

140

15

Ken's® Light Italian

120

11

Ken's® Ranch Dressing

190

20

Ken's® Creamy Caesar

210

21

Ken's® Honey Mustard

270

23

In addition, watch those soft drink selections as they too can be very steep in values too due to the sugar content.

Burger King Beverage Calories & Nutrition Facts

For the COCA-COLA® CLASSIC, SPRITE®, and DR PEPPER®, one value size that is 16 fluid ounces contains 140 Kcals. One small that is 22 fluid ounces contains 210 and one medium that is 32 fluid ounces contains 290 while one large that is 42 ounces contains 390. Wouldn't you really rather have a small hamburger instead?

Menu Item

Calories

Fat g

Sat Fat g

Trans Fat g

Salt mg

Carb g

Protein g

BURGERS, SANDWICHES, CHICKEN, FRIES, ONION RINGS, SHAKES

Whopper®

670 40 11 1.5 1020 51 29

Whopper® with cheese

770 48 16 1.5 1450 52 33

Double Whopper®

920 58 19 2.5 1090 51 48

Double Whopper® with cheese

1010 66 24 2.5 1530 52 53

Triple Whopper®

1160 76 27 3 1170 51 68

Triple Whopper® with cheese

1250 84 32 3.5 1600 52 73

Whopper Jr®

340 20 5 0.5 530 28 14

Whopper Jr® with cheese

390 23 8 1 750 29 16

Hamburger

260 11 4 0 520 27 14

Cheeseburger

310 15 7 0.5 740 28 16

Chicken Tenders - 4 piece

180 11 2 0 310 13 9

Chicken Tenders - 6 piece

270 16 3.5 0 460 19 14

Chicken Tenders - 8 piece

360 21 4 0 610 25 18

Original Chicken Sandwich

630 39 7 0.5 1390 46 24

BK Big Fish® Sandwich

640 31 5 0.5 1560 67 23

BK Veggie®  Burger

400 16 2.5 0 1070 43 22

Fries - small

340 17 3.5 0 630 44 4

Fries - medium

440 22 4.5 0 670 56 5

Fries - large

540 27 6 0 830 69 6

Onion Rings - small

310 17 3 0 490 36 4

Onion Rings - medium

400 21 3.5 0 630 47 6

Onion Rings - large

490 26 4.5 0 770 57 7

Tendergrill™ Chicken Garden Salad

210 7 3 0 780 8 29

Tendercrisp® Chicken Garden Salad

410 23 6 0 1060 27 27

Garden Salad, no chicken

70 4 2.5 0 100 7 4

Side Salad

40 2 1 0 45 2 3

Vanilla Milk Shake - small

370 12 9 0 310 60 9

Chocolate Milk Shake - small

440 11 8 0 360 78 9

Strawberry Milk Shake - small

430 11 8 0 290 77 8

Dutch Apple Pie

320 14 6 0 300 46 2

Funnel Cake Sticks - 9 pieces

300 10 2 0 200 50 2

Soft Serve Cone

180 7 4 0 110 29 4

Chocolate Fudge Sundae

210 9 7 0 105 51 5

 

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