Twist Cone at McDonald's. 160 calories, 4 g protein.
At 160 calories it is lighter than 73% of the 624 McDonald's items we track, against a menu median of 281. It delivers 2.5 g of protein per 100 calories, 122nd of 174 items with published protein.
Priced at 129 McDonald's restaurants in 22 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $1.29 and $2.99, a spread of 132%.
It is on the menu at 129 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 Twist Cone in the sample is $0.99 in Flagstaff, AZ, and the most expensive is $3.59 in Damascus, MD. Both are single restaurants, which is why the headline above uses the middle 80% instead.
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About half the variation happens between restaurants inside one state, so a state median hides as much as it shows. Of the 12 states with at least three sampled restaurants, these are the four cheapest and the four most expensive — the 4 in between are not listed.
| State | Median | Restaurants | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| AZ | $1.29 | 4 | cheapest |
| IL | $1.99 | 26 | cheapest |
| SC | $1.99 | 28 | cheapest |
| MN | $2.00 | 3 | cheapest |
| MD | $3.19 | 9 | most expensive |
| MS | $2.79 | 3 | most expensive |
| CO | $2.69 | 5 | most expensive |
| TX | $2.59 | 12 | most expensive |
8 of the 129 restaurants we price have changed this since 2026-09-03. Where it moved, the typical change was +12.5%. A typical one now charges $2.19.
See every Twist Cone we price on the map — 129 restaurants, one dot each →
The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Twist Cone’s $2.19. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Pumpkin & Creme Pie | $2.19 | 45% | 10,418 |
Priced at 129 of 12,238 McDonald's restaurants in our sample (1.1%). That is a rare menu item on this sample. See the rarest items at McDonald's.
| Nutrient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Added Sugars | 13 g |
| Calcium | 130 mg |
| Cholesterol | 15 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Iron | 1 mg |
| Potassium | 240 mg |
| Protein | 4 g |
| Saturated Fat | 2.5 g |
| Sodium | 80 mg |
| Sugars | 18 g |
| Total Carbohydrate | 27 g |
| Total Fat | 4 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.