A study was conducted by experts using nutritional data from two sites that found the healthiest fast food burger out of every chain in the country. The surprising winner? Whataburger.
Whataburger had an overall rating of an 8.4 on a 10-point scale compared to Wendy’s with a measly 4.6 rating.
In-N-Out Burger wasn’t far behind with an 8.2 rating, giving the chain’s burger, second place.
The results were posted by gambling.com, with the data used from the nutritional sites, Fat Secret, and My Net Diary.
There were four categories that contributed to the rating of each fast food burger:
- Sugar
- Calories
- Fat
- Salt
Whataburger rated on average, better than any other fast food burger when taking each category into account, and with the best overall score. For example, Whataburger had the second lowest fat and caloric content.
Healthiest Fast Food Burgers From First To Last Place
- 1. Whataburger
- 2. In-N-Out Burger
- 3. Checkers/Rally’s (Checkerburger)
- 4. Culver’s
- 5. Del Taco
- 6. Dairy Queen
- 7. Carl’s Jr./Hardee’s
- 8. McDonald’s
- 9. Five Guys
- 10. Wendy’s
The ‘losers’ all held scores lower than 5.0 with the bottom four in the 5.0-4.6 arena.
Another study that was conducted by USA Today set out to find the “Best” fast food cheeseburger as rated by the editors and readers. The results were comparatively different from the healthiest burger results.
BurgerFi was rated #1 in quality, and popularity, while Whataburger came in at #4. There is one similarity between both studies…Wendy’s came in at last place.
