Cheeseburgers, chocolate divert stay in Canadian Happy Meals as U.S. removes them

McDonald’s Canada hasn’t motionless either to follow a U.S. reflection in stealing cheeseburgers and chocolate divert from Happy Meals.

On Thursday, McDonald’s in a U.S. announced that cheeseburgers and chocolate divert will be pulled from a Happy Meal menu to assistance revoke calories, sodium, jam-packed fat and sugarine that kids devour during a restaurants.

“In Canada, we haven’t done those specific decisions associated to cheeseburgers and chocolate milk,” Adam Grachnik, a orator for McDonald’s Canada, pronounced in an email on Friday.

Happy Meals in Canada come with yogurt, and relatives have a choice of including apple slices, Grachnik added.

In Canada, a company said it supports a tellurian McDonald’s goals, including that by 2022, 50 per cent or some-more of its Happy Meals will accommodate a criteria of:

• Fewer than or equal to 600 calories.
• Less than or equal to 10 per cent of calories from jam-packed fat.
• Fewer than or equal to 650 milligrams of sodium.
• Less than or equal to 10 per cent of calories from combined sugar.

The cheeseburger and chocolate divert didn’t accommodate those new standards, a Oak Brook, Ill.-based association said. It is, however, operative to cut sugarine from a chocolate divert and believes it’ll be behind on a Happy Meal menu eventually.

• Proposed new sovereign food wrapping labels aim salt, sugarine and fat

• Kids’ menus challenged on nutritive content

In a U.S., diners can still ask privately for cheeseburgers or chocolate divert with a kid’s meal, though a fast-food association pronounced that not listing them will revoke how mostly they’re ordered.

Other changes in a U.S. include:

• The six-piece duck gob Happy Meal will now come with a kids-sized fries instead of a small, lowering calories and sodium from a fries by half.
• Bottled H2O will be combined as an choice to a Happy Meal menu, though will cost extra. Currently, a Happy Meal menu lists milk, chocolate divert and apple juice. Pop does not cost extra.
• Listing usually a following entrée choices: Hamburger, four-piece and six-piece Chicken McNuggets.

Elsewhere, last month McDonald’s Italy introduced a new Happy Meal entrée called a “Junior Chicken,” a lean, grilled duck sandwich. McDonald’s Australia is now exploring new vegetable and gaunt protein options and McDonald’s France is looking during new unfeeling offerings.

• The McDonald’s slump: Are golden days of golden arches over?

Last week, Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor rolled out proposals for new packaging labels for dishes high in jam-packed fat, sugar or sodium.

Food processors and manufacturers will be compulsory to arrangement a labels on a front of packages, nearby a top. Under a proposal, a tag relates when a product includes some-more than 15 per cent of a daily endorsed intake.

Article source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/happy-meals-health-1.4536698?cmp=rss