Hamburger: 100% BEEF PATTY, REGULAR BUN, KETCHUP, MUSTARD, PICKLE SLICES, ONIONS
That list seems pretty simple. I'm still not going to McDonald's to buy a hamburger. Maybe you object to what makes up the ketchup, mustard, etc?
Source: http://nutrition.mcdonalds.com/usnutritionexchange/ingredien...
Ingredients: Enriched Flour (Bleached Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup and/or Sugar, Yeast, Soybean Oil and/or Canola Oil, Contains 2% or Less: Salt, Wheat Gluten, Calcium Sulfate, Calcium Carbonate, Ammonium Sulfate, Ammonium Chloride, Dough Conditioners (May Contain One or More of: Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, DATEM, Ascorbic Acid, Azodicarbonamide, Mono and Diglycerides, Ethoxylated Monoglycerides, Monocalcium Phosphate, Enzymes, Guar Gum, Calcium Peroxide), Sorbic Acid (Preservative), Calcium Propionate and/or Sodium Propionate (Preservatives), Soy Lecithin, Sesame Seed.
Looking at that, I think narrator has a good point!
I don't know what any of these are: Ammonium Sulfate, Ammonium Chloride, Dough Conditioners (May Contain One or More of: Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, DATEM, Ascorbic Acid, Azodicarbonamide, Mono and Diglycerides, Ethoxylated Monoglycerides, Monocalcium Phosphate, Enzymes, Guar Gum, Calcium Peroxide), Sorbic Acid (Preservative), Calcium Propionate and/or Sodium Propionate (Preservatives)
Please note, I'm not trying to go all "dihydrogen monoxide" here, because I do know and understand that modern food, and as a result modern global health, processes rely on chemicals with names like the above ingredients.
Also, maybe more viscerally, I'd wager that the McDonald's bun is one of those food items that has an unrefrigerated shelf life approaching infinity. (/s?). To think that something that even bacteria and molds won't be able to eat and break down is going to enter my body as sustenance...that's a little unsettling. At least with the supermarket bread I've posted, it probably won't last more than a week or two on the kitchen counter. In my uneducated opinion, that probably means that things like that won't linger around in my body too long to cause any lasting impacts, good or bad.
Now let's see what's in the bread at Panera, or the bun at Five Guys or Shake Shack, or the tortilla at Chipotle. If you're expecting artisan bread baked early that morning by a master chef, you're going to be sorely disappointed.
Here's Chipotle's large tortilla ingredients:
Flour, Water, Organic Whole Wheat Flour, Non-GMO Canola Oil, Salt, Non-GMO Baking Soda (Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Baking Soda, Monocalcium Phosphate), Wheat Bran, Fumaric Acid , Calcium Propionate , Sorbic Acid , Sodium Metabisulfite.
And how about the ciabatta bread that Panera uses in their sandwiches?
Unbleached enriched wheat flour (flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, country base (natural wheat sour, salt, rye flour, wheat gluten, malted barley flour, sunflower lecithin, ascorbic acid, enzymes), olive oil blend (extra virgin olive oil, canola oil), natural base (calcium diphosphate, malted barley flour, dextrose, distilled monoglycerides, rye flour, sunflower lecithin, wheat flour, enzymes, ascorbic acid), yeast (yeast, sorbitan monostearate, ascorbic acid)
Five Guys is, um, pretty open too. I wonder what the "secondary" ingredients are:
Our bread is a proprietary recipe. The primary ingredients are: Water, Salt, Sugar, Vegetable Shorting (Contains: Soy), Milk, Eggs, Bleached Bread Flour, Yeast, Sesame Seeds
Just stumbled across this response from McDonald's themselves... maybe it's less about preservatives and more about dry and salty food (a la beef jerky) http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/your_questions/our_food/why-d...
It's an image McDonald's knows they need to combat and their newest ad campaigns are already working on that angle.
I'm not defending MCD by any stretch of the imagination. But it's amazing how the food was just fine when the economy was in the shitter and people got by on $1 McDoubles. Now that things are turning around and wages are microscopically better, suddenly everyone's a foodie and that $11 2000-calorie Chipotle lunch is a feel-good while the McDouble is dog food.
The cycle will repeat.
Do you eat salt? Dried pasta? Rice? Honey? None of these things really go off, either.
http://aht.seriouseats.com/archives/2010/11/the-burger-lab-r...
> It means that there's nothing that strange about a McDonald's burger not rotting. Any burger of the same shape will act the same way. The real question is, why?
TL;DR: moisture content is the issue. If you get a thin, dry piece of supermarket bread it'll sit there forever too.
1. Company creates GMO.
2. Company visit farmers and make them offer.
3. Farmer don't want to buy for whatever reason.
4. Company buys land near farmer, plant GMO and wait for bees to transfer genes to farmer
5. Company sue farmer for copyright infringement.
6. Farmer cannot afford lawyers, went bankrupt.
7. Company offer to drop the case if farmer buys their GMO.
8. Farmer eventually lost the land, company buys it, plant their GMO.
Reason 2:
1. Company want to improve plant, they have 2 choices:
a) make it more resistant to pest
b) make it more resistant to pesticide
2. Company chose b), then (allow farmers to) dump copious amount of pesticides on crop killing everything nearby.
3. Poisonous monoculture crop, bees are starving.
Reason 2 sounds possible, but a bad decision of the Farmer. Once again not a thing i've heard happening in Europe, because it simply isn't cost efficient to do so.
But what we certainly have is Organic Farmers having to resort to copious amounts of less effective but "organic" pesticides.
You meant anti-science, right?
Also, you're kind of missing the point that skinny fries without potato skin are low on the list of healthy ways to eat a potato.
So's coffee.
Meanwhile, sunlight and estrogen are known carcinogens, but we don't hide in dark caves and cut out ovaries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erucic_acid indicates "the dietary intake of erucic acid by an individual consuming at the average level is well below the PTDI, therefore, there is no cause for concern in terms of public health and safety".
This is the sort of scientific illiteracy that lets people like Food Babe scaremonger over what's in a pumpkin spice latte.
Glyphosate got a 2A rating from the IARC. That's a rating that has importance for people working with the chemicals - it's an industrial exposure rating relevant to people who spray their crops. It has no relevance to you as a consumer of canola oil. The dose of glyphosate you'd get from canola oil is tiny.
Do you have a credible source for your eurcic acid claim?
Canola oil contains by definition less than 2% its total fatty acids as erucic acid. We think harm occurs in the 750 mg per kg range. (So an average adult weighing 60 kg needs to eat 45 gr of erucic acid per day, and erucic acid is just 2% of canola oil so you'd have to eat 2 kg of canola oil per day to get that much erucic acid) We adjust that down by a factor of one hundred just because, so a safe daily dose is 7.5 mg. that means a person has to eat 375 mg of canola oil per day to reach this dose which is a hundred times smaller than the smallest dose we see harm in animal experiments - and for this small dose you need to use infant pigs, otherwise the risky dose is higher.
By European law the amount of erucic acid must be less than 5%. US FDA rules say that canola oil must be less than 2% Erucic acid.
http://www.idahostatesman.com/2014/11/15/3487642_mcdonalds-r...