Is American food really unhealthier? How pasta sauce, peanut butter and even Big Macs stack up to their British counterparts

So much for happy meals.

The quality of ultraprocessed American fare — especially President-elect Donald Trump’s beloved Big Macs — is receiving new scrutiny thanks to Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

Kennedy has made headlines for calling legal food additives “poison” and criticizing the ingredients in Froot Loops, but long before he campaigned for president, sites like Food Babe were highlighting alarming differences in American ultraprocessed foods versus their overseas counterparts.

Americans should read nutrition labels before purchasing food from the grocery store. Shutterstock

The Post took its own look at the nutritional labels of three US food staples — baked beans, tomato sauce and peanut butter — comparing their ingredients, calories, fat and salt content to similar UK products to see if we’re getting royally screwed.

We also put the nutritional info for McDonald’s Big Macs and Pret A Manger’s egg salad sandwich side by side — and shockingly, even the seemingly identical products weren’t quite the same.