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McDonald's Slightly Healthier Egg McMuffin REVEALED
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Jen Carlson
Published Mar 13, 2013
Modified Mar 13, 2013
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Like a siren calling you to shore, McDonald's and its breakfast offerings are nearly impossible to resist if you wake up hungover before 10:30 a.m. The fast food chain is one of the rare ones to use real eggs in their sandwiches, which also include salty cheese, salty meat, salty bread product, and salty salt. And now they're making a very slightly healthier alternative: the Egg White Delight McMuffin, which they'll start slinging on April 22nd.
A McDonald's rep tell us this new sandwich will pack 250 calories, which is really only 50 calories less than the classic's 300.
According to the Daily Meal, "The egg whites are cooked free-form on the griddle with a spatula, and will join a slice of American cheese and Canadian bacon on a whole-grain English muffin. Egg whites will also be made available on all the other breakfast sandwiches the company offers."
The sandwich was tested last November, "and sales proved that it deserved a nationwide release"—at the very least, they'll do better than the Fish McBites.
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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