Worst Breakfast Foods

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but it can also be the most excessive. Overloaded with fats, sugars, sodium, and carbs, some of the most delectable looking items on the colorful menus of your favorite breakfast haunt are also one’s you should most avoid.

As proof, Men’s Health offers a list of the foods that should not start your day. For the complete rundown, including suggested alternatives, check out America’s Worst Breakfast Foods.

Worst Side Dish: Burger King Hash Browns (large) – 620 calories, 40 g fat (11 g saturated; 13 g trans), 1,200 mg sodium, 60 g carbs. ; 13 g trans), 1,200 mg sodium, 60 g carbs.

Worst Breakfast Sandwich: Hardee’s Monster Biscuit. – 710 calories, 51 g fat (17 g saturated), 2,250 mg sodium, 37 g carbs.

Worst Kids Meal: Denny’s Big Dipper French Toastix with margarine and syrup – 770 calories, 71 g fat (13 g saturated), 107 g carbs.

Worst Pastry: Cinnabon Classic Cinnamon Roll – 813 calories, 32 g fat (5 g trans fat),
117 g carbs. 

Worst Smoothie: Smoothie King Grape Expectations II (40 oz.) – 1,102 calories, 256 g sugars, 740 mg sodium. 

Worst Combo Meal: McDonald’s Deluxe Breakfast – 1,360 calories, 64 g fat (22 g saturated), 2,325 mg sodium, 160 g carbs, 49 g sugars.

Worst Omelet: IHOP Big Steak Omelet – 1,490 calories.

The Worst Breakfast in America: Bob Evans Stacked and Stuffed Caramel Banana Pecan Hotcakes – 1,543 calories, 77 g fat (26 g saturated; 9 g trans), 2,259 mg sodium, 198 g carbs, 109 g sugars.

To read more about these dubious eye-openers, visit America’s Worst Breakfast Foods.