Take a Guess. How Many Ingredients Do You Think Are In One McDonald's French Fry?
I know you do not eat fastfood but for anyone who can't resist an occasional fastfood meal here is what you need to know, esp. if you have celiac or food sensitivities.
McDonald’s French Fries
(I do not know if other fast-food chains contain as many ingredients or the same ones in their fries).
Some of my clients consume fast-food meals, and we work on reducing the amount until it is eliminated from their diets.
For people with gluten sensitivity or celiac, I have cautioned them to avoid french fries because many of the places, such as McDonald’s, use hydrolyzed wheat.
McDonald’s fries are neither dairy-free nor vegetarian due to hydrolyzed milk and natural beef flavor.
One French Fry will contain 14 ingredients.
Some say the fries include 19 ingredients because some ingredients are used twice.
What is in that McDonald’s French fry:
potatoes (I think it is a GMO)
canola oil
soybean oil
hydrogenated soybean oil
natural beef flavor
hydrolyzed wheat
hydrolyzed milk
citric acid
dimethylpolysiloxane
dextrose (sugar)
sodium acid pyrophosphate
salt
canola oil
corn oil
soybean oil
hydrogenated soybean oil
TBHQ
citric acid
dimethylpolysiloxane
Note: Some ingredients are listed twice because the fries are fried in the oil blend twice—once before they are frozen and again when prepared for your order.
Are you hungry for some fries yet?
Not only are they not dairy or gluten-free or vegan and vegetarian friendly, but also the GMO potatoes are steeped in a toxic inflammatory seed oil soup.
Gross.
The Healthy Slant This Article Presents on These French Fries
There is no way you can say that these fries are healthy, yet this article tries really hard to make you think they are healthy by saying,
“citric acid is an antioxidant used to preserve the oil's freshness.”
Using the term antioxidant in the above statement is using it as a buzzword since most people know antioxidants are associated with health. It may lead people to think that their fries are loaded with antioxidants.
The article’s author states that dimethylpolysiloxane may sound scary, but don’t fear it. It is just an anti-foaming agent approved for many food uses…so there is no need to worry about why your fry is even surrounded by foam.
Sodium acid pyrophosphate is added to prevent the fries from turning gray, and the TBHQ is…wait for it…another antioxidant to preserve freshness.
My gosh, those fries contain not one but two antioxidants!
Miner, the article’s author, states that
“McDondalds’s French fries are made with potatoes; they just need a little help along the way.”
Wow. That left me speechless.
This is the Best Part
The author then goes on to explain a change in McDonald’s french fries in the 1990s. The fries were apparently cooked in beef tallow, but they switched to vegetable oil after consumers expressed concern over the saturated fat in them.
OMG
Seriously, swapping beef tallow for vegetable oil was a healthy change?
Other than that, the author makes no mention of the fries soaked in soybean, corn, and canola oil not once but twice.
And think how long that oil gets reused before they swap it for a fresh batch.
Next time someone wants to eat a fast-food french fry, you may want to show them this post!
Just the picture above should do the trick!
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my last two trips there in the early 1980’s resulted in instant trips to the restroom, being from new jersey , i said fuggetaboutit
I wonder what's in McDonald's hamburger. We used to eat fast food occasionally, and we had a little dog who was a junk food junkie. But she would not eat McDonald's hamburger. If we put some down for her, she would sniff it, give us a dirty look and walk away.