Fat levels in junk food at McDonald's and KFC VARIES WILDLY from country to country, city to city and store to store, and the use of deadly trans fats -- which kills up to 75,000 Americans per year -- varies as well, according to a new international study. A KFC meal in some countries, for example, contains 19 grams of trans fats, but only one gram of trans fats in Germany for the very same meal. It appears that the junk food giants use trans fats wherever they can get away with it -- where local education levels about food and health are lower -- because it costs much less.