McPlant - Nutrition & Ingredients (2024)

FAQs

Is McDonald's McPlant healthy? ›

Here's what our associate nutrition editor, Jessica Ball, M.S. RD, has to say: "While the McPlant is a good option for those trying to cut down on animal proteins, it is important to remember that it is still a highly processed food. It can be a good choice on occasion, but shouldn't be eaten regularly.

At its height, the chain's vegan-friendly burger—dubbed the McPlant—was served in 600 restaurants from February to August of 2022 as a test for future markets. Due to slow sales, the burger was not greenlit for a nationwide expansion plan, forcing plant-based patrons to get scrappy when it came to ordering.

The McPlant comes in at 429 calories, while the Quarter Pounder with Cheese has 518 calories. The burgers looked quite similar at first glance. Both burgers came with slightly different toppings. Neither looked very attractive when I opened them up.

McPlant is a vegan burger made with a juicy plant-based patty that has been co-developed with Beyond Meat® and features vegan sandwich sauce, ketchup, mustard, onion, pickles, lettuce, tomato, and a vegan alternative to cheese in a sesame seed bun. Vegan certified by the Vegetarian Society.

Vegan Cheese in the McPlant Burger

The cheese is made with a main ingredient of coconut oil and tapioca starch, this is a common pairing of main ingredients you'll find in mass produced vegan cheeses around the world.

With the fresh lettuce and tomato, it might be a little closer to a Big Mac apart from having one patty rather than the signature burger's two. If I had eaten the McPlant solo without a meat comparison, I don't think I would have known the difference.

It has an Impossible patty, with tomatoes, lettuce, mayo, ketchup, pickles, and onions. Unlike the McPlant, it has no cheese and or mustard. It's also a Whopper, so it's larger, with a bun and patty that measure 5 inches across, versus the McPlant which is 4 inches across.

Despite what the latest media hit jobs argue, plant-based meat isn't lagging in terms of business—the entire economy is. Detractors are jumping to unfounded conclusions in their analysis of the market. The Bloomberg article cites layoffs at Impossible Foods, “plummeting” sales, and . . .

Is McPlant healthier than normal burger? ›

The McPlant has a few more carbs: 40g compared with 37g. The Vegan Burger ranks marginally lower for calories, at 405. For fat it's virtually the same, at 17.7g with 1.5g of saturated fat. It has more carbs (43.4g), more sugar (7.2g), less protein (16.4g) and more salt (2.67g).

Here are the facts: All of our burger patties in the U.S. are always made with 100% USDA-inspected beef. That's the only ingredient: 100% real beef.

This twice-as-nice burger is the answer to fans' pleas, featuring not one, but two of the much-loved, juicy Beyond Meat® patties. The undeniably delicious McPlant features a patty co-created with Beyond Meat® and has already proved wildly successful with customers since its launch in September 2021.

If you're making your vegan burger patty from scratch some common burger mix ingredients include plant-based proteins like black beans, chickpeas, other legumes, cooked quinoa or brown rice, rolled oats, certain vegetables like bell peppers, red onions, caramelized onions, shiitake mushrooms, cashews, and coconut ...

Ingredients: Water, Pea Protein*, Avocado Oil, Natural Flavors, Rice Protein, Lentil Protein, 2% or less of Methylcellulose, Potato Starch, Pea Starch, Potassium Lactate (to preserve freshness), Faba Bean Protein, Apple Extract, Pomegranate Concentrate, Potassium Salt, Spice, Vinegar, Vegetable Juice Color (with Beet).

Description. The vegetarian-based burger contains a battered and breaded patty which is made of peas, corn, carrots, green beans, onions, potatoes, rice and spices, served in a sesame toasted bun with eggless mayonnaise and lettuce.

The Double McPlant features two Beyond Meat patties. It had that recognisible McDonald's taste, while the two patties were juicy, had a meat-like texture, and definitely tasted just like a meaty McDonald's burger.