Well McDonald's have found a way to put 14 ingredients into their fries! Yes, I said 14 vs 3 at home.
The process for making McDonald's fries at their Idaho processing plant is as follows:
First the potatoes are harvested, peeled, cut and blanched. After that fairly innocuous process they are put through a cutting machine that gives them their long, thin shape.
Once they have been shaped, they are "sauced" with a blend of canola oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, natural BEEF flavor, hydrolyzed wheat, hydrolyzed milk, citric acid and dimethylpolysiloxane.
Dimethyl what????? Well, dimethylpolysiloxane is an additive that stops cooking oil from foaming - it is also a form of silicone found in Silly Putty. According to McDonald's it is added for safety reasons.
Dextrose - a form of sugar - is then added to give the fries their golden color when fried. Sodium acid pyrophosphate is then added to stop the fries from going grey and salt for flavoring.
They are fried at the plant and then flash frozen before being shipped to the McDonald's outlets. Once at the outlets they are fried for a second time in an oil blend similar to the one at the plant with the addition of - another unpronounceable name - tertiary butylhydroquinone (TBHQ) which is a petrol based chemical and hydrogenated soybean oil - a manufactured form of trans fat.
A single large serving of McDonald's fries contains 510 calories, 6g of protein, 24g of fat, 67g of carbs and 290 mgms of sodium.
So, these fries are NOT vegetarian/vegan or gluten free - they aren't even dairy free!
Now, you are a little luckier if you live in the UK as the McDonald's fries recipe in the UK does not include hydrogenated soybean oil, canola oil or dimethylpolysiloxane.
So next time you want fries - make them yourself!!!
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