McChicken®

McChicken® at McDonald's. 390 calories, $1.50, 14 g protein.

390calories
$1.50price
14 gprotein
+0label score
260calories per dollar

How it compares on the McDonald's menu

At 390 calories it is heavier than 65% of the 134 McDonald's items we track, against a menu median of 270. Scored on McDonald's’s own printed label, it comes to +0 on the label score, 3rd of 25 McDonald's items we can score that way. It delivers 3.6 g of protein per 100 calories, 55th of 111 items with published protein. At 260 calories per dollar it is 2nd of 37 priced items on value.

Lighter choices at McDonald's

ItemCaloriesSaving
Sausage McMuffin383−7
Filet-O-Fish378−12
Crispy366−24
Hot Chocolate (Small)360−30
McChicken Sandwich358−32

What a McChicken® costs across America

Priced at 12946 Taco Bell restaurants in 50 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $1.50 and $2.00, a spread of 33%.

$1.50median price
$1.50–$2.00middle 80%
12946restaurants priced
50states
173 restaurants at $1.00–$1.084 restaurants at $1.08–$1.1781 restaurants at $1.17–$1.2543 restaurants at $1.25–$1.3416 restaurants at $1.34–$1.427919 restaurants at $1.42–$1.51114 restaurants at $1.51–$1.590 restaurants at $1.59–$1.6874 restaurants at $1.68–$1.7698 restaurants at $1.76–$1.85156 restaurants at $1.85–$1.943572 restaurants at $1.94–$2.0210 restaurants at $2.02–$2.10686 restaurants at $2.10 and above$1.00$2.10+

Each bar is the number of restaurants charging that price, and the gold bar holds the median. The last bar gathers everything at that price and above, so one distant outlier cannot flatten the rest of the chart.

$0.12cheapest sampled — Mc Murray, PA
$99.99most expensive sampled — Franklin Township, NJ

The cheapest McChicken® in the sample is $0.12 in Mc Murray, PA, and the most expensive is $99.99 in Franklin Township, NJ — 83225% more. Both are single restaurants, which is why the headline above uses the middle 80% instead.

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By state, for what it is worth

About half the variation happens between restaurants inside one state, so a state median hides as much as it shows. Of the 50 states with at least three sampled restaurants, these are the four cheapest and the four most expensive — the 42 in between are not listed.

StateMedianRestaurantsEnd
PA$1.50484cheapest
WI$1.50285cheapest
TX$1.501102cheapest
FL$1.50866cheapest
NH$2.9948most expensive
VT$2.9913most expensive
ME$2.0049most expensive
HI$2.0062most expensive

Full nutrient panel

NutrientAmount
Added Sugars4 g
Calcium20 mg
Cholesterol40 mg
Dietary Fiber1 g
Iron2 mg
Potassium310 mg
Protein14 g
Saturated Fat3.5 g
Sodium560 mg
Sugars4 g
Total Carbohydrate38 g
Total Fat21 g
Trans Fat0 g
Vitamin D0 mcg

The nutrition label as McDonald's publishes it for this item, matched to the current menu, alongside the store-level price above.