How do you know if what you are eating from mcDonalds is what you think you are eating?

Question

it depends what mood i am in to eat mcDonalds because i have heard romours that mcdonalds is a fake if anyone has any idea please contact me

Answer 1

well the rumors are WRONG.

the health department would close them down.

you can eat safely there.

but words of wisdom:

grease + starches + soda = fat people.

eat healthy. :)

Answer 2

these days due to loopholes in the law and lobbyists (not just in the fast food industry but in many large corporate industries) it is possible but very hard to find out excatly whats in the food they sell--but with long and very tedius searching you can come very close (about 90% or so) to finding out whats really inside the menu items (look up their website menu information, request menu info from their corporate franchise and research ingredients listed (you also find out about ingredients not listed that are related to products they use but dont disclose to the public). a good start to this search is a free dvd you can view on the internet on yahoo and i think its on you tube.com also called "meet your meat" --it goes behind closed doors with a camera undercover to several heavily-used meat butcheries for beef, chicken (etc) many fast food places use --it may turn you off from fast food for a while but in reality all processed food is 50/50 'weary' depending on where its from and depending on WHO prepares/handles it (hince the cooks and waiters that dont wash their hands and touch EVERYTHING) and whats been added (example- chemicals in sodas and candy-even moving-active micro-animals  in ALL yogurt (you can see them under any microscope)-- addictive proteins placed in many u.s. snacks and processed foods. Remember if its processed-thats just code for "something was added to it during processing"--which isnt always a bad thing (hince vitamins and minerals to enhance health for people that dont eat healthly). most organic "so called earth grown" foods are covered in f***s (animal and human bowel movements) for fertilization and worse before its cleaned and in the supermarket (of course the exception is hydroponically grown and new fertilizer methods but most farmers are too poor or too cheap ot too lazy or dont have the resources to use cleaner methods so the so called chemicals are added to make the fruits and veggies safe---another topic ----anyway so again there are many factors to weigh in this topic---this is a big broad topic but its a fun and interesting one if your up to the research-remember just keep all ur food washed-your hands clean--b careful where you eat (environment) and try to stay away from raw or undercooked foods--some will say its ok but statistically its most risky--weigh everything with open, reasonable perspective---- good luck-have fun!

Answer 3

fake? how do you have fake fries chicken and hamburger meat na not fake

Answer 4

well you prob. would not want to know what is those nuggets are really made out of, it's chicken but not the parts you want to eat!

Answer 5

It isn't that fake, its just bad for you. Those rumors are false. Usually a good rule of thumb is if it looks hearty and good, its probally not fake

Answer 6

Can u rephrase the question, I really didn't get it

Answer 7

uhhhhhhhhh in the end it's all food right....wel for the most part

Answer 8

i know what you are talking about. there was an article about McDonald's Chicken McNuggets. It claims that they are not really whole pieces of chicken breast as McDonald's claim. The article claims they are pieces that are cut away from the good parts of the chicken, scraps if you will.

Here it is, check it out!

So What Really Is In A McDonald's Chicken McNugget?

Eating junk food in large quantities affects our health badly. For this reason, doctors suggest supplements. The regular intakes of supplements help maintain the reduced quantity of fibers and glucosamine in human body. Another essential ingredient of diet pills ephedra is in common use by those who are extraordinarily conscious of their looks.

The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan is a fascinating book that details the changing eating habits of Americans. I can't recommend it highly enough. It explains how, over the last 30 years, we have become a nation that eats vast quantities of corn – much more so than Mexicans, the original "corn people."

Most folks assume that a chicken nugget is just a piece of fried chicken, right? Wrong! Did you know, for example, that a McDonald’s Chicken McNugget is 56% corn?

What else is in a McDonald's Chicken McNugget? Besides corn, and to a lesser extent, chicken, The Omnivore's Dilemma describes all of the thirty-eight ingredients that make up a McNugget – one of which I'll bet you'll never guess. During this part of the book, the author has just ordered a meal from McDonald’s with his family and taken one of the flyers available at McDonald’s called "A Full Serving of Nutrition Facts: Choose the Best Meal for You."  These two paragraphs are taken directly from The Omnivore’s Dilemma:  

“The ingredients listed in the flyer suggest a lot of thought goes into a nugget, that and a lot of corn. Of the thirty-eight ingredients it takes to make a McNugget, I counted thirteen that can be derived from corn: the corn-fed chicken itself; modified cornstarch (to bind the pulverized chicken meat); mono-, tri-, and diglycerides (emulsifiers, which keep the fats and water from separating); dextrose; lecithin (another emulsifier); chicken broth (to restore some of the flavor that processing leeches out); yellow corn flour and more modified cornstarch (for the batter); cornstarch (a filler); vegetable shortening; partially hydrogenated corn oil; and citric acid as a preservative. A couple of other plants take part in the nugget: There's some wheat in the batter, and on any given day the hydrogenated oil could come from soybeans, canola, or cotton rather than corn, depending on the market price and availability.

According to the handout, McNuggets also contain several completely synthetic ingredients, quasiedible substances that ultimately come not from a corn or soybean field but form a petroleum refinery or chemical plant. These chemicals are what make modern processed food possible, by keeping the organic materials in them from going bad or looking strange after months in the freezer or on the road. Listed first are the "leavening agents": sodium aluminum phosphate, mono-calcium phosphate, sodium acid pyrophosphate, and calcium lactate. These are antioxidants added to keep the various animal and vegetable fats involved in a nugget from turning rancid. Then there are "anti-foaming agents" like dimethylpolysiloxene, added to the cooking oil to keep the starches from binding to air molecules, so as to produce foam during the fry. The problem is evidently grave enough to warrant adding a toxic chemical to the food: According to the Handbook of Food Additives, dimethylpolysiloxene is a suspected carcinogen and an established mutagen, tumorigen, and reproductive effector; it's also flammable. But perhaps the most alarming ingredient in a Chicken McNugget is tertiary butylhydroquinone, or TBHQ, an antioxidant derived from petroleum that is either sprayed directly on the nugget or the inside of the box it comes in to "help preserve freshness." According to A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives, TBHQ is a form of butane (i.e. lighter fluid) the FDA allows processors to use sparingly in our food: It can comprise no more than 0.02 percent of the oil in a nugget. Which is probably just as well, considering that ingesting a single gram of TBHQ can cause "nausea, vomiting, ringing in the ears, delirium, a sense of suffocation, and collapse." Ingesting five grams of TBHQ can kill.”

Bet you never thought that was in your chicken McNuggets