Top 5 fast-food burgers for your health, says new study

As President Donald Trump settles into his 2nd word successful the White House, his emotion of burgers is well-known.

In Texas, a Trump-themed edifice inspired by the president's penchant for burgers opened connected Election Day. And a post-election photograph of Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. enjoying a McDonald's meal went viral connected societal media.

Will these favourite meals beryllium embraced arsenic portion of the Make America Healthy Again mission?

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The nutrient website Delish precocious highlighted immoderate of its picks for the healthiest burger options successful America. 

To find the "healthiest," Delish focused connected the nutritional facts, including calories, carbs, abdominous and sodium levels, of assorted burgers from much than 15 antithetic menus.

The "healthiest" fast-food burgers successful America person been ranked. (iStock)

"Burgers are not needfully unhealthy," Laura Manaker, a South Carolina-based dietitian and nutritionist who helped compile the Delish rankings, told Fox News Digital. 

"Burgers tin so beryllium portion of a balanced fare arsenic they are a bully root of macromolecule and iron, which are indispensable nutrients for the body. The cardinal lies successful information power and being mindful of what other you are eating with it."

In descending order, here's however Delish ranked the burgers.

5. Whataburger Jr. 

The Texas-based fast-food restaurant chain Whataburger had the fifth-healthiest burger with its Whataburger Jr. product. 

Whataburger's Whataburger Jr. had the lowest magnitude of saturated abdominous of the burgers that Delish ranked.  (iStock)

The Whataburger Jr. has 310 calories, 36 grams of carbs and lone 3 grams of saturated abdominous – the lowest of immoderate burger looked astatine by Delish. 

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A Whataburger Jr. comes with tomato, lettuce, pickles, diced onions and mustard, according to the Whataburger website. 

The sodium level of the Whataburger Jr., however, was the second-highest astatine 750 milligrams. 

4. In-N-Out hamburger 

A hamburger astatine In-N-Out is comparably not that bad, Delish said.

"The classic hamburger has 16 grams of protein, conscionable 360 calories, 37 grams of carbs, 4.5 grams of saturated abdominous and 660 mg of sodium, which for us, gives it a flimsy borderline implicit the Whataburger Jr.," according to Delish. 

In-N-Out has a "secret" paper with healthier options, including a burger "protein style" with nary bun.  (Alex Tai/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The In-N-Out hamburger comes modular with onions, "spread," tomatoes and lettuce – though arsenic immoderate In-N-Out person knows, there's overmuch much to the paper than what is officially shown successful the restaurant. 

At In-N-Out, the California-based chain's "secret" paper includes the enactment to marque thing "protein style" – swapping retired the bun for a lettuce wrap. 

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Doing this slims the In-N-Out hamburger down to lone 200 calories, 4.5 grams of saturated fat, 390 grams of sodium and 8 grams of carbohydrates, Delish said. 

3. McDonald's classical hamburger

The classical hamburger astatine McDonald's is simply a coagulated fast-food option, Delish said.

A McDonald's classical hamburger has 13 grams of protein.  (iStock)

"The golden-arched accelerated nutrient joint's bare bones (but inactive delicious) classical burger has 13 grams of protein, 250 calories, 30 carbs, conscionable 3.5 grams of saturated abdominous and 510 mg of sodium," Delish said. 

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A classical McDonald's hamburger comes with "a tangy pickle, chopped onions, ketchup and mustard," according to the Illinois-based chain's website. 

2. Burger King Whopper Jr. 

A "slightly smaller" mentation of Burger King's flagship Whopper sandwich, the Whopper Jr. was praised by Delish for its precocious macromolecule content, debased calories and debased sodium.

The Whopper Jr. is topped with "fresh tomatoes, crisp lettuce, tangy pickles and crunchy onions," according to Burger King's website, arsenic good arsenic mayonnaise and ketchup. 

The Whopper Jr., a "slightly smaller" mentation of the Whopper sandwich, has 310 calories.  (Julian Stratenschulte/picture confederation via Getty Images)

"This enactment comes with somewhat much macromolecule than Micky D's (15.2 grams), 310 calories, 27 grams of carbs and 5 grams of saturated fat. Plus, it has the lowest sodium contented connected our full database astatine 390 mg," Delish said. 

1. Wendy's Jr. hamburger

The Wendy's Jr. hamburger was crowned the healthiest fast-food burger by Delish, acknowledgment to its "impressively debased calorie count" astatine conscionable 280 calories.

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"At 440 mg, the sodium level is inactive comparatively beauteous low, and this burger comes with 15 grams of macromolecule and conscionable 25 grams of carbs," Delish said. 

The Wendy's Jr. hamburger was recovered to beryllium the healthiest fast-food burger by the nutrient website Delish.  (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

The Jr. hamburger astatine Wendy's comes with pickles, onion, ketchup and mustard, according to the Ohio-based chain's website. 

Tips for a healthier fast-food trip

Regardless of the burger, determination are immoderate casual swaps to marque a fast-food travel conscionable a small spot healthier, 2 nutrition professionals told Fox News Digital. 

One is to debar a treble meat patty and see alternatives similar a grilled chickenhearted bosom oregon veggie burger, Michael Garko told Fox News Digital. 

Garko is simply a Florida-based nutrition advisor for Strauss Naturals, a supplement institution based successful Canada. 

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"Grilled chickenhearted oregon veggie patties are typically little successful saturated abdominous and calories compared to beef patties," Garko said. 

Also, don't hide astir the interaction broadside dishes tin person connected a meal, Garko said. French fries, Garko said, "are precocious successful trans fats, sodium and calories," whereas a broadside crockery – with a airy dressing – contains vitamins and fiber. 

There are immoderate casual swaps a idiosyncratic tin marque for a healthier fast-food trip.  (Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images)

If skipping the fries is simply not an option, Vanessa Rissetto, a registered dietitian and CEO of Culina Health, had different suggestion: Ditch the bun.

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"If you privation to person a burger with fries, my proposal would beryllium to destruct the bun," Rissetto, based successful New York, told Fox News Digital. 

"Not lone does the bun adhd carbs and calories, but it besides muddles each the flavor."

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Sodas play a relation too, Rissetto said. A idiosyncratic looking for the healthiest travel to a fast-food edifice should "replace soda oregon sweetened beverages with water, unsweetened beverage oregon sparkling water." 

"Sugary drinks lend to bare calories and tin pb to value summation and insulin resistance," she said.