Medium Vanilla Frosty®

Medium Vanilla Frosty® at Wendy's. 390 calories, $3.19, 12 g protein.

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

How it compares on the Wendy's menu

At 390 calories it is lighter than 57% 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, 64th of 74 Wendy's items we can score that way. It delivers 3.1 g of protein per 100 calories, 75th of 151 items with published protein. At 122 calories per dollar it is 66th of 171 priced items on value.

Lighter choices at Wendy's

What a Medium 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 $2.89 and $3.79, a spread of 31%.

$3.19median price

$2.89–$3.79middle 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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$2.34cheapest sampled — MOREHEAD, KY

$4.59most expensive sampled — HONOLULU, HI

The cheapest Medium Vanilla Frosty® in the sample is $2.34 in MOREHEAD, KY, and the most expensive is $4.59 in HONOLULU, HI. 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	$2.59	32	cheapest
GA	$2.99	244	cheapest
SC	$2.99	76	cheapest
AL	$2.99	58	cheapest
HI	$4.59	10	most expensive
MD	$4.19	79	most expensive
OR	$3.99	24	most expensive
DC	$3.90	3	most expensive

Priced like this at Wendy's

The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Medium Vanilla Frosty®’s $3.19. 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.

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.