Fast Food Chains Are Being Sued Over 'Forever Chemicals' in Their Packaging. Despite commitments to eventually eliminate the chemicals, a recent report found PFAS are still prevalent in fast food packaging at chains including McDonald's and Burger King.
But by analysing the 2,000 ingredients on the company's nutrition web pages, The Independent has established that McDonald's uses a range of 78 different additives on 578 separate occasions.
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.
And for all the naysayers out there, no McDonald's fries are not chemical potato goop shaped into fries. Instead, they are made up of potatoes, vegetable oil (which contains canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, and natural beef flavor with wheat and milk derivatives), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate, and salt.
Ingredients: Potatoes, Vegetable Oil (canola Oil, Corn Oil, Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Natural Beef Flavor [wheat And Milk Derivatives]*), Dextrose, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate (maintain Color), Salt. *natural Beef Flavor Contains Hydrolyzed Wheat And Hydrolyzed Milk As Starting Ingredients.
In addition to frying and seasoning the fries, McDonald's coats them in dextrose, a form a sugar.
Description and origin. The Chicken McNugget is a small piece of processed chicken meat that is fried in batter and flash-frozen at a central manufacturing facility, then shipped out and sold at McDonald's restaurants.
It also has an equally familiar-sounding ingredient: monosodium glutamate, or MSG. McDonald's doesn't currently use MSG in the other items that compose its regular, nationally available menu—but both Chick-fil-A and Popeyes list it as an ingredient in their own chicken sandwiches and chicken filets.
McDonald's doesn't use MSG in its food that is on the national menu, and there are no updates from the company yet on whether the Crispy Chicken Sandwiches will be added to the menu permanently. McDonald's has been making strides to use purer ingredients in its food.
If you are truly worried, look up these ingredients: sodium aluminum phosphate; mono-calcium phosphate, sodium acid pyrophosphate, and calcium lactate. These are used to keep the animal and vegetable fats from turning rancid. Then there are "anti foaming" agents like dimethylpolysiloxene.
PFAS (Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances) are a group of synthetic chemicals used in a variety of products due to their water and oil-resistant properties. They are commonly found in non-stick cookware, waterproof clothing, and fire-fighting foams.
FRESH INGREDIENTS
Our goal is quality and safe food above all else. From the potatoes that become World Famous Fries, to the 100% pure beef in our burgers, we're committed to serving you the very best. We serve only high-quality, real food, every time. Here are the facts...
Preservatives are used in some of our food only when absolutely necessary, to ensure the food is safe to eat.
Today, Keystone's US operations are proud to produce and deliver the highest quality beef, chicken and fish products to McDonald's, including more than 150 million pounds of beef, 300 million pounds of chicken and 15 million pounds of fish each year.
How can I know if there is MSG in my food? FDA requires that foods containing added MSG list it in the ingredient panel on the packaging as monosodium glutamate.
However, most MSG in food is typically found as an added ingredient in processed foods such as canned soups, soy sauce, deli meat, pepperoni, salami, pastrami, sausages, ketchup, mustard, barbeque sauce, mayonnaise, salad dressing, canned vegetables, french fries, frozen meals, fast food, chicken nuggets, and Chinese ...
The chicken in our McNuggets® is 100% chicken breast – chopped into small pieces in order to make it easier to shape and eat. In our restaurants, each Chicken McNugget® is cooked by our teams until perfectly crisp and then served nice and hot.
These foods go through multiple processes (extrusion, molding, milling, etc.), contain many added ingredients and are highly manipulated. Examples are soft drinks, chips, chocolate, candy, ice-cream, sweetened breakfast cereals, packaged soups, chicken nuggets, hotdogs, fries and more.
Technically speaking, processed meat is beef or pork that's preserved through salting or curing. The term also includes canned, smoked, or dried meat, or those with added preservatives—like chicken nuggets, hot dogs, hamburger patties, or cold cuts like bologna.
We use a blend including canola and sunflower oils to cook with. Like all vegetable oils, it's cholesterol free.
Step 2: Dip in “Ingredient Bath”
The now-cut and blanched fries are dipped in an “ingredient bath” which consists of dextrose and sodium acid pyrophosphate.
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).