Medium French Fries
Medium French Fries at McDonald's. 320 calories, 5 g protein.
Photograph from McDonald's, as published on its own menu.
How it compares on the McDonald's menu
At 320 calories it is heavier than 55% of the 624 McDonald's items we track, against a menu median of 281. It delivers 1.6 g of protein per 100 calories, 151st of 174 items with published protein.
Lighter choices at McDonald's
| Item | Calories | Saving |
|---|---|---|
| Sausage Burrito | 310 | −10 |
| Egg McMuffin® | 310 | −10 |
| Chicken McMuffin® | 310 | −10 |
| 3 Berry McPops | 310 | −10 |
| Red Flash | 310 | −10 |
The same thing at other chains
| Chain | Item | Calories | Nutrient density |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burger King | Value French Fries | 230 | — |
| Wendy's | French Fries | 260 | 14.41 |
| Burger King | Small French Fries | 300 | — |
| Burger King | French Fries | 370 | 12.32 |
| Burger King | Medium French Fries | 370 | — |
| Burger King | Large French Fries | 440 | — |
What a Medium French Fries costs across America
Priced at 681 McDonald's restaurants in 38 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $1.00 and $3.99, a spread of 299%.
It is on the menu at 707 of the 12235 restaurants sampled, so it is not carried everywhere.
Each bar is the number of restaurants charging that price, and the gold bar holds the median. The last gathers everything at that price and above, so one distant outlier cannot flatten the rest.
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The cheapest Medium French Fries in the sample is $0.30 in San Diego, CA, and the most expensive is $20.01 in Hialeah, FL. 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 32 states with at least three sampled restaurants, these are the four cheapest and the four most expensive — the 24 in between are not listed.
| State | Median | Restaurants | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| FL | $1.00 | 43 | cheapest |
| MI | $1.00 | 9 | cheapest |
| KS | $1.00 | 3 | cheapest |
| WI | $1.50 | 30 | cheapest |
| IL | $5.00 | 40 | most expensive |
| OH | $3.79 | 20 | most expensive |
| NJ | $3.59 | 34 | most expensive |
| CO | $3.39 | 16 | most expensive |
What it has cost since we started watching
None of the 708 restaurants we price has changed this since 2026-09-01. A typical one charges $2.19.
2026-09-01 · $2.59 to 2026-09-26 · $2.19. Point at a day, or tab to it, for that day's median and how many restaurants it came from.
The median across the restaurants priced each day. It can step when our coverage of the chain grows, which is why the sentence above counts restaurants rather than reading this line.
Priced like this at McDonald's
The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Medium French Fries’s $2.09. The spread is the middle 80% of restaurants, so a wide one means the same item costs noticeably different amounts depending where you buy it.
| Item | Median | Spread | Restaurants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bagel | $1.99 | 68% | 12,208 |
| Hash Browns | $2.19 | 50% | 12,235 |
| Hamburger | $2.19 | 56% | 12,234 |
| Biscuit | $2.19 | 60% | 12,234 |
| McChicken® | $2.19 | 82% | 12,216 |
Priced at 708 of 12,238 McDonald's restaurants in our sample (5.8%). That is a rare menu item on this sample. See the rarest items at McDonald's.
Full nutrient panel
| Nutrient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Added Sugars | 0 g |
| Calcium | 15 mg |
| Cholesterol | 0 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 4 g |
| Iron | 1 mg |
| Potassium | 650 mg |
| Protein | 5 g |
| Saturated Fat | 2 g |
| Sodium | 260 mg |
| Sugars | 0 g |
| Total Carbohydrate | 43 g |
| Total Fat | 15 g |
| Trans Fat | 0 g |
| Vitamin D | 0 mcg |
The nutrition label as McDonald's publishes it for this item, matched to the current menu, alongside the store-level price above.