McDonald's Cup of Tea!!

louisekilburn
louisekilburn Posts: 3 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
How is a cup of tea 280 calories?! I didn't have a bite of anything else whilst the kids had chicken wraps, fries and icecreams...... one cup of tea?!?

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  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    Was it black tea or did it have cream and/or sugar? Tea by itself is very low calorie, so if it didn't have anything else in it, you probably have an inaccurate database entry.
  • TheRambler
    TheRambler Posts: 387 Member
    sweet tea, I'm assuming?
  • mph323
    mph323 Posts: 3,563 Member
    Wow! Where did you get the information? Obviously it's wrong - did you get from the MFP database? The info is user-entered and riddled with errors. If it's the database, look for other entries that make sense and use them. :-)
  • louisekilburn
    louisekilburn Posts: 3 Member
    No just one sachet of milk, no sugar. Think it's a wrong database entry..... I saw the first one for 'McDonald's tea' but saw another entry for 0 calories!! Phew.... panic over :)
  • mph323
    mph323 Posts: 3,563 Member
    If a cup of tea was really that many calories, I think I'd crawl into a corner and cry :-)
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    louisekilburn wrote: »
    No just one sachet of milk, no sugar. Think it's a wrong database entry..... I saw the first one for 'McDonald's tea' but saw another entry for 0 calories!! Phew.... panic over :)

    According to the McDonald's UK website (I'm assuming you are there), their tea with milk is 12 calories. Large restaurant chains often have websites where you can double-check calorie/macro information. I've found them quite helpful in verifying MFP database entries.
  • TheRambler
    TheRambler Posts: 387 Member
    I'd just have a milkshake!!!
  • TheCupcakeCounter
    TheCupcakeCounter Posts: 606 Member
    I'm guessing the 280 cals is for a large sweet tea nut the plain iced tea
  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    It's probably an entry for the US and their chilled sweet tea. If you pop UK next to your search you're more likely to get the right entry.

    That or someone made their own entry for something they had with tea but lazily labeled it tea.
  • Afura
    Afura Posts: 2,054 Member
    louisekilburn wrote: »
    280 must be for tea with chocolate brownie side?........

    I'd much rather take my 280 and go get a brownie from somewhere else. :wink: Definitely double check labels and websites when you can. I've had to correct an entry for Starbucks when someone put it 50 calories under. Ugh.
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    VintageFeline wrote: »
    It's probably an entry for the US and their chilled sweet tea. If you pop UK next to your search you're more likely to get the right entry.

    That or someone made their own entry for something they had with tea but lazily labeled it tea.

    I got curious and I looked it up. You're right -- a large McDonald's sweetened iced tea is 280 calories. So not a false entry at all, just another fun cultural difference.

    Now I want to call it "chilled tea" because that sounds much classier.
  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    janejellyroll wrote: »
    VintageFeline wrote: »
    It's probably an entry for the US and their chilled sweet tea. If you pop UK next to your search you're more likely to get the right entry.

    That or someone made their own entry for something they had with tea but lazily labeled it tea.

    I got curious and I looked it up. You're right -- a large McDonald's sweetened iced tea is 280 calories. So not a false entry at all, just another fun cultural difference.

    Now I want to call it "chilled tea" because that sounds much classier.

    I'm having issues with finding words these days (cognitive thing mixed with meds) and couldn't for the life of me remember iced!
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