Table 3.
Sugar content* (g/100 g or ml serving) of all fast-food products by fast-food chain, overall and by country
| Overall (n 545) | USA (n 195) | Germany (n 164) | Australia (n 186) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fast-food chain | Mean | sd | Mean | sd | Mean | sd | Mean | sd |
| Food items | ||||||||
| McDonald’s (n 169) | 10·5 | 11·7 | 12·0† | 12·2 | 10·3 | 10·9 | 9·7 | 12·4 |
| Burger King (n 180) | 10·6 | 11·8 | 11·4 | 13·5 | 12·6 | 10·2 | 8·6 | 11·0 |
| Subway (n 127) | 9·1 | 13·0 | 9·1 | 14·0 | 3·5 | 1·2 | 11·6 | 13·8 |
| KFC (n 69) | 14·0 | 14·6 | 18·5 | 17·0 | 13·8 | 13·4 | 5·4 | 4·4 |
| Overall (n 169) | USA (n 59) | Germany (n 43) | Australia (n 67) | |||||
| Beverage items | ||||||||
| McDonalds’s (n 70) | 10·5 | 4·5 | 10·6 | 5·1 | 11·8 | 6·0 | 9·6 | 2·6 |
| Burger King (n 61) | 11·2 | 4·8 | 13·0 | 6·4 | 10·7 | 4·2 | 9·9 | 3·0 |
| KFC (n 38) | 10·0 | 2·7 | 9·8 | 2·9 | 8·2‡ | 2·6 | 11·5 | 1·4 |
KFC, Kentucky Fried Chicken™.
*
All data are presented as mean and standard deviations.
†
Significantly different compared with Australia (P = 0·0030).
‡
Significantly different compared with Australia (P = 0·0417).