McDonald’s Adds New Organic Option for Happy Meals

McDonald’s has made an effort to make their Happy Meals healthier after receiving negative attention for their caloric content. They made the container of fries smaller and offered alternatives to fries like apple slices. Now, the company is taking another step to make their kids’ meals appeal to parents by offering organic juice.

USA Today writes that McDonald’s is working with “…Honest Kids, part of Honest Tea, an organic beverage company purchased by Coca-Cola in 2011. Coca-Cola also owns Minute Maid, which currently supplies the apple juice boxes for Happy Meals.” The new drink will replace the current sugary juice option in November.

Honest Kids’ juice has eight grams of sugar and 35 calories compared to the old offering with “…80 calories and 19 grams of sugar.” And it’s worth noting that the new juice has a ridiculous, but whimsical, name – Honest Kids Organic Appley Ever After.

This isn’t McDonald’s first foray into organic foods. In 2015, Eater reported that the company released an all-organic burger in Germany called the “McB.”  Though the beef patty was certified organic, the rest of the burger (toppings and sauce) “…weren’t necessarily organic.” The McB didn’t make its way over to the United States.