Heidi Klum Eats McDonald's Chicken Wraps

Submitted by Meg Wilson on May 29, 2008 - 08:17.


Heidi Klum is helping McDonald's sell their new chicken wrap offering. It's an expensive campaign by McDonald's to attempt to alter their image as kings of junk food.

The wrap she is holding here is a grilled chicken breast strip with cheddar jack cheese, shredded lettuce and honey mustard sauce in a flour tortilla. It is about 240 calories. It seems much more nutritious than the typical McDonald's fare in that the calorie count is low and it provides 11% of the daily recommended amount of calcium and iron. However, it also includes 33% of daily recommended amount of sodium, which is alarmingly high given the nutritional value it provides. And the fiber content is low at 4%, you'd have to eat 25 of these (at 6,000 calories) to get your fiber quota for the day.

And remember you are not exactly getting free range chicken here. We don't want to think too deeply about where these chickens come from.

Here is a surreal video commercial of Heidi lining up for her lunch at a McDonald's in Germany with a couple of other unusually beautiful and slim models -- the kind you would typically see in your local McDonald's lineup.


( categories: Weight Loss )