Large Vanilla Frosty®

Large Vanilla Frosty® at Wendy's. 510 calories, $3.69, 15 g protein.

Photograph from Wendy's, as published on its own menu.

How it compares on the Wendy's menu

At 510 calories it is heavier than 64% of the 184 Wendy's items we track, against a menu median of 420. Scored on Wendy's own printed label, it comes to -29 on the label score, 65th of 74 Wendy's items we can score that way. It delivers 2.9 g of protein per 100 calories, 77th of 151 items with published protein. At 138 calories per dollar it is 42nd of 171 priced items on value.

Lighter choices at Wendy's

What a Large Vanilla Frosty® costs across America

Priced at 3655 Wendy's restaurants in 45 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $3.29 and $4.30, a spread of 31%.

$3.69median price

$3.29–$4.30middle 80%

3655restaurants priced

45states

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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$2.79cheapest sampled — EUFAULA, AL

$5.79most expensive sampled — PINOLE, CA

The cheapest Large Vanilla Frosty® in the sample is $2.79 in EUFAULA, AL, and the most expensive is $5.79 in PINOLE, CA. 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 44 states with at least three sampled restaurants, these are the four cheapest and the four most expensive — the 36 in between are not listed.

State	Median	Restaurants	End
MS	$2.99	32	cheapest
NH	$3.19	23	cheapest
SC	$3.29	76	cheapest
NC	$3.39	203	cheapest
HI	$5.09	10	most expensive
NM	$4.69	12	most expensive
AZ	$4.69	61	most expensive
OR	$4.49	24	most expensive

Priced like this at Wendy's

The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Large Vanilla Frosty®’s $3.69. 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.

Full nutrient panel

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