No. Ground beef contains only beef. Depending on what cut of meat is being ground, there will be either more or less fat, but it's all from a cow.
If labeled as a "Hamburger," it can contain all beef or beef and beef fat. Other permitted ingredients include dry seasonings like spices and flavorings.
Beef is typical, although other meats such as lamb and pork may also be used. The meat is ground or chopped.
Every one of our McDonald's burgers is made with 100% pure beef and cooked and prepared with salt, pepper and nothing else—no fillers, no additives, no preservatives. We use the trimmings of cuts like the chuck, round and sirloin for our burgers, which are ground and formed into our hamburger patties.
According to USDA standards, hamburger may have fat added but cannot contain more than 30 percent fat by weight.
For context, a classic hamburger is typically between a quarter pound (4 ounces) to 6 ounces, yielding 6.7g to 10g saturated fat per burger patty. Healthier fats in ground beef include monounsaturated fat (6 grams) and polyunsaturated fat (0.4 grams).
BHT (butylated hydroxytoluene), BHA (butylated hydroxyanisole), TOCOPHEROLS (VITAMIN E) - antioxidants that help maintain the appeal and wholesome qualities of food by retarding rancidity in fats, sausages, and dried meats, as well as helping to protect some of the natural nutrients in foods, such as vitamin A.
Once at the restaurant our fries are simply cooked in dedicated frying vats in a non-hydrogenated blend of sunflower and rapeseed oil which is 100 percent suitable for vegetarians (McDonald's French Fries are officially accredited by the Vegetarian Society).
Quarter Pound 100% Beef Patty*
Ingredients: 100% Pure USDA Inspected Beef; No Fillers, No Extenders.
Ingredients: 100% Pure Beef.
Although any cut of beef can be used to produce ground beef, chuck steak is a popular choice because of its rich flavor and meat-to-fat ratio. Round steak is also often used. In the United States, ground beef is usually categorized based on the cut and fat percentage: Chuck: 78–84% lean.
The USDA categorizes beef into eight meat regions to indicate where on the cow's body the meat is coming from. From there, the meat is divided into subcategories. CHUCK – Chuck is from the cow's shoulder. It includes cuts like ground beef for hamburgers, country-style ribs, flat-iron steak and more.
What is the difference between a beef burger and a hamburger? There is no difference! While we can't say for sure why a hamburger is called a hamburger, beef burgers are still called hamburgers, even though there's no ham in them.
Both minced meat and ground meat comes from pork, beef, chicken, and so on. Another common characteristic of minced and ground meat is that they come in various types of meat, including pork, beef, turkey, chicken, lamb, etc. Their simple processing methods can apply to any meat.
Ground beef, the primary ingredient in a burger, is high in saturated fat.
Generally, McDonald's sets its own company standards at or above the very highest of international standards. McDonald's meat patties are produced from 100% pure halal beef with no additives, preservatives or flavor enhancers. The beef patties are prepared and packaged at McDonald's approved meat plants.
We do not use pork in any form. All ingredients used in our product are 100 % complying with FSSAI guidelines and are never derived from pork. I came to know that McDonald's uses pork oil/grease in coffee.
Each and every one of our Chicken McNuggets® is made with USDA-inspected boneless white-meat chicken—cut from the chicken breast, tenderloins and rib meat.
Short answer is No. There's natural beef flavoring used in making them. A small amount is added to the oil that they're fried in, in the factory that produces them. It's a small amount however, so I can see Muslims deciding to eat them anyway.
Globally, McDonald's consumes about 440 million pounds of pork and serves a wide variety of pork products in an estimated 75 countries. It sources more than 70% of all pork used in the restaurant chain from the U.S.
None of our menu items are Halal. Our restaurant operations do not allow us to separate halal products from our regular McDonald's items nor can we ensure other products in the restaurant meet the standard required for halal designations.
Some consumers may be familiar with the practice of using lean, finely textured beef sometimes treated with ammonia, which is referred to by some as “pink slime.” We do not use this.
What is “pink slime?” “Pink slime” is a colloquial term for Lean Finely Textured Beef (LFTB). LFTB refers to smaller pieces of lean meat that are added to ground beef to produce a leaner product utilizing as much of meat from an animal as possible. The term “pink slime” was not developed by the food industry.
The additive is banned in Australia, and appears nowhere on the list of approved food additives for this country. I double-checked with McDonald's Australia, and a spokesperson told me: We've never had that in our patties.