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What's in a Big Mac?
Posted: 20 Mar 2006 11:56 AM |
Was talking about this the other day so for a laugh I thought I'd look at McDonalds site to see what's in their food They still use Beef in their fries :/
Big Mac, Fries and a shake:
BIG MAC:
Beef Patty:
100% pure USDA inspected beef; no additives, no fillers, no extenders.
Big Mac® Bun:
Enriched bleached flour (bleached wheat flour, malted barley flour, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, folic acid, reduced iron), water, high fructose corn syrup, sesame seeds, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, yeast, contains less than 2 % of each of the following: salt, calcium sulfate, calcium carbonate, calcium silicate, wheat gluten, soy flour, baking soda, emulsifier (mono- and diglycerides, diacetyl tartaric acid esters of fatty acids, ethanol, sorbitol, polysorbate 20, potassium propionate), sodium stearoyl lactylate, dough conditioner (corn starch, ammonium chloride, ammonium sulfate, calcium peroxide, ascorbic acid, azodicarbonamide, enzymes), calcium propionate (preservative). Contains wheat and soybean ingredients.
Big Mac® Sauce:
Soybean oil, pickles, distilled vinegar, water, egg yolks, high fructose corn syrup, sugar, onion powder, corn syrup, spice and spice extractives, salt, xanthan gum, mustard flour, propylene glycol alginate, sodium benzoate and potassium sorbate as preservatives, mustard bran, garlic powder, hydrolyzed (corn gluten, wheat, and soy) proteins, caramel color, extractives of paprika, turmeric, calcium disodium EDTA to protect flavor. Contains wheat, egg and soybean ingredients.
Pasteurized Process American Cheese:
Milk, milkfat, water, cream, sodium citrate, salt, sodium phosphate, sorbic acid (preservative), artificial color, cheese culture, acetic acid, soy lecithin, enzymes, with starch added for slice separation. Contains milk and soybean ingredients.
Lettuce
Onions (Dehydrated):
100% onions
Pickle Slices:
Cucumbers, water, vinegar, salt, calcium chloride, alum, natural flavorings (vegetable source), polysorbate 80, turmeric (color).
Grill Seasoning:
Salt, pepper, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (cottonseed and soybean).
FRIES:
French Fries:
Potatoes, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, natural flavor (BEEF, wheat and dairy sources), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (to preserve natural color). Cooked in partially hydrogenated vegetable oils (may contain partially hydrogenated soybean oil and/or partially hydrogenated corn oil and/or partially hydrogenated canola oil and/or cottonseed oil and/or sunflower oil and/or corn oil). Contains derivatives of wheat and dairy.
SHAKE:
Strawberry Triple Thick® Shake:
Shake Mix: Whole milk, sucrose, cream, nonfat milk solids, corn syrup solids, mono and diglycerides, guar gum, imitation vanilla flavor, carrageenan, cellulose gum, vitamin A palmitate. Contains milk ingredients. Strawberry Syrup: Sugar, strawberries, water, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, natural (vegetable source) and artificial flavors, pectin, citric acid, xanthan gum, potassium sorbate (a preservative), caramel color, FD&C Red #40, calcium chloride. May contain small amounts of other shake flavors served at the restaurant, including egg ingredients when Egg Nog Shakes are available.
http://www.mcdonalds.com/app_controller.nutrition.categories.ingredients.index.html
Total Calories - 2080. (If you go large).
136% of your total daily Recommended maximum of fat.
164% of your total daily recommended maximum of Saturated fats.
77% of Salt/Sodium RDA.
There's also plenty of trans-fats in there.
Of course, the Big Mac isn't even the most calorific thing on the menu ;)
As regards the fries? They got into trouble when they were using Beef fat, so they stopped and now cook it in Hydrogenated Beef oil........ They however, replaced the beef fat with erm....... Beef flavouring in the fries :/
oh yeah.......... there's also faeces in the meat ;)
It's kinda fun though, use their "Nutrition" calculator to figure out what's in the food you're eating. It's kind of worrisome ;)
Fancy a salad?
How about a Crispy chicken Caesar salad with caesar dressing?
Spicy Crispy Chicken Breast Filet:
Spicy breaded boneless skinless chicken breast filet with rib meat extenders added, smoke flavors added. Contains up to 28.5% of a solution of water, seasoning (salt, modified potato starch, spices, maltodextrin, carrageenan, sugar, garlic powder, rice starch, modified corn starch, onion powder, yeast extract, natural (vegetable and animal source) and artificial flavor, chicken broth, natural smoke flavor, extractives of paprika, polysorbate 80, flavor (animal source), dextrin, chicken fat, sesame oil, soy lecithin, carrot concentrate, egg yolk), sodium phosphates. Battered and breaded with: bleached wheat flour, water, salt, modified food starch, enriched wheat flour (enriched with niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), sodium diacetate, spices, wheat gluten, egg whites, citric acid, garlic powder, yeast extract, sugar, maltodextrin, yellow corn flour, onion powder, natural flavors (vegetable source), yeast, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate, monocalcium phosphate), extractive of paprika and turmeric, FD&C yellow 6, FD&C red 40 lake, soy lecithin. Breading set in vegetable oil. Cooked in partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, (may contain partially hydrogenated soybean oil and/or partially hydrogenated corn oil and/or partially hydrogenated canola oil and/or cottonseed oil and/or sunflower oil and/or corn oil). Contains wheat, soybean, and egg ingredients.
Grape Tomatoes
Salad Mix:
Iceberg lettuce, romaine lettuce, spring mix (may contain baby red romaine, baby green romaine, baby red leaf, baby green leaf, baby red swiss chard, baby red oak, baby green oak, lolla rosa, tango, tatsoi, arugula, mizuna, baby spinach, radicchio, frisee), carrots.
Shredded Parmesan Cheese:
Pasteurized milk, salt, cheese culture, enzymes.
Newman's Own® Creamy Caesar Dressing:
Water, soybean oil, distilled vinegar, blend of parmesan, Romano and granular cheeses (part skim milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes, whey, lactic acid, citric acid), fructose, egg yolks, corn starch, salt, anchovy* (dextrin, anchovy extract, salt), olive oil, spices, lactic acid, Worcestershire sauce {distilled vinegar, molasses, corn syrup, water, salt, caramel color, garlic powder, sugar, spices, tamarind, natural flavor (fruit source)}, xanthan gum, garlic*, onion*. *Dehydrated. Contains milk, egg and fish (anchovy) ingredients.
490 calories.
48% of RDA fat intake.
DisgustingI personally wouldn't feed that to my cat ;) |
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Re: What's in a Big Mac?
Posted: 20 Mar 2006 12:09 PM |
mmmm.....yum!
I know what I'm having for breakfast tomorrow... |
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Re: What's in a Big Mac?
Posted: 20 Mar 2006 01:19 PM |
| Ummm I don't think Ara'd be too happy if you ate his cat. I mean that was the only edible item listed above.... |
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Re: What's in a Big Mac?
Posted: 20 Mar 2006 01:29 PM |
Ummm I don't think Ara'd be too happy if you ate his cat. I mean that was the only edible item listed above....
Yeah, but -I- would be happy if someone ate the cats. There are actually two. I hope Paul is hungry. ;) |
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Re: What's in a Big Mac?
Posted: 20 Mar 2006 05:24 PM |
There's feces in every kind of processed meat, as well as insect parts. Part of livin in the post-industrial age, baby.
Incidentally, if you watched "Super Size Me", the Morgan Spurlock documentary about an all-McDonald's diet, you saw the guy whose diet consists of approximately 90% Big Macs, and has for the past thirty years. He is thin and has a lower than average cholesterol count. However, he "very rarely" eats the fries. :)
What's the big deal about beef oil in fries? You never cooked your hash browns in the sausage grease when you make breakfast? Never used bacon grease as a flavor additive? Never sprinkled baco bits on your salad?
Besides, if anything gets us, it'll be cancer from all the EMP radiation from cell phones and computers we've been absorbing all these years...
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Re: What's in a Big Mac?
Posted: 20 Mar 2006 06:41 PM |
Sounds good to me, not McDonalds flaut in the last 10 years everyones main concern has become looking good naked and living forever
The big deal of course with the beef oil in the fries was for vegetarians. But if your that much of a hippie why would you eat at McDonalds anyway. Also many people who are Hindu do not eat beef. |
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Re: What's in a Big Mac?
Posted: 20 Mar 2006 06:52 PM |
What's the big deal about beef oil in fries?
Yep it's pretty much the passing off of the fries as vegetarian that's the issue, and also for people following religious dietary practices. To stop cooking them in beef fat is good, but then replacing that beef fat with flavourings, some of which are from beef sources, and then burying this information to me is erm........... reprehensible. |
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Re: What's in a Big Mac?
Posted: 21 Mar 2006 01:37 AM |
MacDonalds in India is an experience
vegetarian chicken mcnuggats
maharajha mac
lamb burgers
vegetarian french fries (without the beef fat)
yum! |
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Re: What's in a Big Mac?
Posted: 21 Mar 2006 11:05 PM |
oh...last i heard, anything that was 'partially hydrolyzed [insert type] oil' could consist of up to 60% MSG. Monosodium Glutamate.
ok. information from an article by Mark Gold from '95 which can be found here:
http://users.westnet.gr/~aesclep/mg-msg.htm
lengthy but very informative read. alas, i still eat chenese buffet at least once a month and would more if i could afford it.
conclusion. MSG is good for babies. |
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Re: What's in a Big Mac?
Posted: 22 Mar 2006 03:11 AM |
I always thought McDonalds "food" tasted like post apocalyptic sewage and reading about all the stuff they put in it I am conviced enough not to touch it with a stick and protective gloves. And the times I actually had a Big Mac I was mad at the sizes of their burgers. I mean they are so tiny you have to eat atleast a dozen of them to still your hunger. And then after one fart you are hungry again. Bleh! And their campaigns for the health of the youth are a bit missplaced while they feed their poison to children.
Anyway those are my thoughts on Big Mac's and their creators :)
So there :) |
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Re: What's in a Big Mac?
Posted: 22 Mar 2006 10:31 AM |
Just as a side note, McDonalds owns the largest Earthworm farm on the planet.
Take a guess why. |
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Re: What's in a Big Mac?
Posted: 22 Mar 2006 11:08 AM |
Just as a side note, McDonalds owns the largest Earthworm farm on the planet.
Take a guess why.
To lure the fish for their burgers? :P |
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Re: What's in a Big Mac?
Posted: 22 Mar 2006 11:37 AM |
Just as a side note, McDonalds owns the largest Earthworm farm on the planet.
Take a guess why.
Nice try, but unfortunatly not true. Which is too bad, because I wouldn't mind trying a earthworm burger someday.
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Re: What's in a Big Mac?
Posted: 23 Mar 2006 04:08 PM |
For anyone living outside the US , 'Baco bits' are worse than they sound.
They look like gravel,have the same salt content as salt, and taste like if you added water to one grain it would rehydrate to an entire piglet.
Why anyone would sprinkle a load of them on a salad is anyones guess.
If they were available in england we would sprinkle them on the roads prior to a frost. |
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Re: What's in a Big Mac?
Posted: 23 Mar 2006 04:21 PM |
If they were available in england we would sprinkle them on the roads prior to a frost.
LOL - Please - if Bacos were widely available in England they'd be in everything. I've seen what you people eat... ;)
You know, of course, that Britain is right behind the U.S. as fattest nation, and they're the ones we took the title from recently.
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Re: What's in a Big Mac?
Posted: 24 Mar 2006 11:56 AM |
I was drawn to this thread because I thought we were going to out the local recipe for a big mac, seeing as Vives has players all over the place (but I'll wager none more than 10 km from a McDonald's - am I wrong?).
I can remember once coming across a message board for current McDonald's employees to compare notes on how the operations go across different locales. Also entertaining were descriptions of regional menu items. I wonder if things aren't more standardized now. In the last couple years McD's started taking credit cards in my neighborhood, and the soda fountain has been automated at the drive through w/ a very simple robot that communicates w/ the cash register.
My own testimony: everything from McDonald's in the southern U.S. tastes better than everything from McDonald's in the rest of the U.S. That goes for a lot of food, actually. Can't say why this is so. But, I've demonstrated this to myself over and over. And over. |
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Re: What's in a Big Mac?
Posted: 24 Mar 2006 01:52 PM |
Nope. happily i am 40 miles from my nearest , and i live on that thin lower leg bit that juts out of britain.And we dont have bacobits, and beef fat is dripping, and, hash is not something you dip into dripping, hash is something that you heat then sprinkle,(allegedly).Dripping on toast is very good.McDonalds is wrong.
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Re: What's in a Big Mac?
Posted: 24 Mar 2006 02:17 PM |
I wanted to make a traditional Sunday British Dinner for Lisen's parents..... so thought I'd do Roast beef, tatties, yorkshire pudding and all the trimmings.
Now here in Canada, -TRY- getting any joint of beef still on the bone (apart from prime rib). It is seemingly impossible, -AND- they trim all the bloody fat, which gives a well-cooked Roast it's flavour and tenderness......... Eventually I succumbed and got prime rib, but when I asked for some beef dripping they thought I was mental! After much discussion he eventually gave us some beef fat (a nice big piece which I turned into dripping myself), for us Brits this is essential for cooking your tatties and Yorkshire pud, nothing else suffices!
I'm all for healthy food, but PLEASE don't trim off the sodding fat :/ You just can't get the same taste in yer Sunday Lunch without it.
Never thought I'd say it, but in comparison to many other fast food chains.............. Thank Christ for Tim Hortons! :D |
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