McDonalds?

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  • SwimFan1981
    SwimFan1981 Posts: 1,430 Member
    From the McD website

    Re Chips/Fries


    French Fries: Potatoes, canola oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, safflower oil, natural flavour (vegetable source), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (maintain colour), citric acid (preservative), dimethylpolysiloxane (antifoaming agent) and cooked in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with THBQ, citric acid and dimethylpolysiloxane).
  • S_U_M_M_E_R
    S_U_M_M_E_R Posts: 220 Member
    I have not read all the replies to this post.

    I worked at McDonalds for 5 years, often eating 2 meals a day there, 5 days a week. I never became obese and was at a healthy weight probably 4 of those 5 years (I had a chubby year in high school).

    There are many varying ideas of a "healthy" weight. But you were also young and had a somewhat higher metabolism
    I ate fast food every day in college and was super skinny. Now I am older and no way could I do that. I have to eat perfectly. My body has become so sensitive to crap in foods. I am now developing sensitivities to foods when I never had any. Your body will finally have had enough of McDonald's when you are older.
  • michaela4910
    michaela4910 Posts: 544 Member
    I don't eat meat, but I like the fries.

    the fries aren't vegetarian.

    Nope, they are covered in beef fat or some other revolting ****e :laugh:
    This is true. They cook the fries in the fat which comes off of the hamburgers during cooking. That is their secret to the fries having a unique flavor they say. They are not vegetarian.

    This is not true, the fries are cooked in 100% vegetable oils. There used to be animal fats in them years ago but that is a thing of the distant past.
    Most of which are actually worse for you than animal fats.
    True! Vegetable oil, like margarine is FAKE fat. It is artificial fat and very, very bad for you. One should use REAL oil instead. Such as coconut oil or olive oil. Again, yet ANOTHER reason why I cook at home. I bake my fries from cut up red potatoes with a coating of olive oil and a shake of sea salt.

    I love your style!

    Mostly canola oil with some small amounts of corn and soybean oil because they can be brought to higher temperatures.
  • marz42
    marz42 Posts: 223 Member
    Maybe its not actually that bad of an idea, if the last time you tried it it turned you off, maybe going in again and/or trying it, you'll realize how greasy and kinda tasteless most of that is and then not want it again.
    I'm having a full on craving! I'll go for lunch tomorrow. Have a cheeseburger (300) and small fries (230). Or a single crispy chicken ranch BLT. (540)

    Who am I turning into? I used to be too snobby for junk food :o
    But they post calories, and places I would love to go to for a cheat meal don't!!!! *sobs*
  • PikaKnight
    PikaKnight Posts: 34,971 Member
    This thread has jus gone completely off the deep end. What utter nonsense.

    *nod nods* I think that it has gone very off topic...and not in the humorous way either.
    Really? Off topic? The topic is whether McDonald's is healthy or not. No one has strayed from that topic. If it bores you. If the conversation is "too much" there are other topics on MFP going on right now. Thanks for stopping by.

    Wow...having a bad day? Didn't say it was boring. Hope things look up for you soon :):flowerforyou:
    I hope you stop whining soon.
    Wasn't whining..but thank you :):flowerforyou:
  • CoachReddy
    CoachReddy Posts: 3,949 Member
    From the McD website

    Re Chips/Fries


    French Fries: Potatoes, canola oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, safflower oil, natural flavour (vegetable source), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (maintain colour), citric acid (preservative), dimethylpolysiloxane (antifoaming agent) and cooked in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with THBQ, citric acid and dimethylpolysiloxane).

    Why do french fries need an anti foaming agent!?
  • SwimFan1981
    SwimFan1981 Posts: 1,430 Member
    I don't eat meat, but I like the fries.

    the fries aren't vegetarian.

    Nope, they are covered in beef fat or some other revolting ****e :laugh:
    This is true. They cook the fries in the fat which comes off of the hamburgers during cooking. That is their secret to the fries having a unique flavor they say. They are not vegetarian.

    This is not true, the fries are cooked in 100% vegetable oils. There used to be animal fats in them years ago but that is a thing of the distant past.
    Most of which are actually worse for you than animal fats.
    True! Vegetable oil, like margarine is FAKE fat. It is artificial fat and very, very bad for you. One should use REAL oil instead. Such as coconut oil or olive oil. Again, yet ANOTHER reason why I cook at home. I bake my fries from cut up red potatoes with a coating of olive oil and a shake of sea salt.

    I love your style!

    Mostly canola oil with some small amounts of corn and soybean oil because they can be brought to higher temperatures.

    French Fries: Potatoes, canola oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, safflower oil, natural flavour (vegetable source), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (maintain colour), citric acid (preservative), dimethylpolysiloxane (antifoaming agent) and cooked in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with THBQ, citric acid and dimethylpolysiloxane).
  • SwimFan1981
    SwimFan1981 Posts: 1,430 Member
    From the McD website

    Re Chips/Fries


    French Fries: Potatoes, canola oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, safflower oil, natural flavour (vegetable source), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (maintain colour), citric acid (preservative), dimethylpolysiloxane (antifoaming agent) and cooked in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with THBQ, citric acid and dimethylpolysiloxane).

    Why do french fries need an anti foaming agent!?

    I really have no idea :noway: so they don't "foam"?

    I think I'll stick to home grown potatoes with a little olive oil on them.
  • S_U_M_M_E_R
    S_U_M_M_E_R Posts: 220 Member
    I don't eat meat, but I like the fries.

    the fries aren't vegetarian.

    Nope, they are covered in beef fat or some other revolting ****e :laugh:
    This is true. They cook the fries in the fat which comes off of the hamburgers during cooking. That is their secret to the fries having a unique flavor they say. They are not vegetarian.

    This is not true, the fries are cooked in 100% vegetable oils. There used to be animal fats in them years ago but that is a thing of the distant past.
    Most of which are actually worse for you than animal fats.
    True! Vegetable oil, like margarine is FAKE fat. It is artificial fat and very, very bad for you. One should use REAL oil instead. Such as coconut oil or olive oil. Again, yet ANOTHER reason why I cook at home. I bake my fries from cut up red potatoes with a coating of olive oil and a shake of sea salt.

    I love your style!

    Mostly canola oil with some small amounts of corn and soybean oil because they can be brought to higher temperatures.

    French Fries: Potatoes, canola oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, safflower oil, natural flavour (vegetable source), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (maintain colour), citric acid (preservative), dimethylpolysiloxane (antifoaming agent) and cooked in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with THBQ, citric acid and dimethylpolysiloxane).
    dimethylpolysiloxane and dimethylpolysiloxane YUM! Just what my body needs. It's said, "if you can't pronounce it, you shouldn't eat it." That is poison.
  • PikaKnight
    PikaKnight Posts: 34,971 Member
    From the McD website

    Re Chips/Fries


    French Fries: Potatoes, canola oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, safflower oil, natural flavour (vegetable source), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (maintain colour), citric acid (preservative), dimethylpolysiloxane (antifoaming agent) and cooked in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with THBQ, citric acid and dimethylpolysiloxane).

    Why do french fries need an anti foaming agent!?

    I really have no idea :noway: so they don't "foam"?

    I think I'll stick to home grown potatoes with a little olive oil on them.

    They use it so that frying oil won't get foamy after multiple batches.
  • CoachReddy
    CoachReddy Posts: 3,949 Member
    From the McD website

    Re Chips/Fries


    French Fries: Potatoes, canola oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, safflower oil, natural flavour (vegetable source), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (maintain colour), citric acid (preservative), dimethylpolysiloxane (antifoaming agent) and cooked in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with THBQ, citric acid and dimethylpolysiloxane).

    Why do french fries need an anti foaming agent!?

    I really have no idea :noway: so they don't "foam"?

    I think I'll stick to home grown potatoes with a little olive oil on them.

    They use it so that frying oil won't get foamy after multiple batches.

    And you want to eat that just so they dont have to change the oil? Really?
  • dfonte
    dfonte Posts: 263 Member
    McDonalds is good
  • Gidzmo
    Gidzmo Posts: 905 Member
    I am thinking about it lately. The funny thing is, in the last five years I've only been there once, and that was in Japan. And that was before I gave a flying rats behind about calories. I just did not like it, did not like that fast food smell and could not bring myself to eat it.

    Now, after a month of clean living, I want it. I mean a cosi salad is 600 calories and I can get a crispy fried chicken for that.
    Egg McMuffin is only 300? My breakfast of yogurt, nuts and fruit is over that (really, take a look). Small fries are only 230??? That's crazy. I'd certainly feel a lot more full eating there. But is it crazy?

    Crazy? No. Not a doggone thing wrong with wanting McD's. But you can order things specially-made. And there is a nutrition chart available online. It's all choices when it comes to any restaurant.
  • PikaKnight
    PikaKnight Posts: 34,971 Member
    From the McD website

    Re Chips/Fries


    French Fries: Potatoes, canola oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, safflower oil, natural flavour (vegetable source), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (maintain colour), citric acid (preservative), dimethylpolysiloxane (antifoaming agent) and cooked in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with THBQ, citric acid and dimethylpolysiloxane).

    Why do french fries need an anti foaming agent!?

    I really have no idea :noway: so they don't "foam"?

    I think I'll stick to home grown potatoes with a little olive oil on them.

    They use it so that frying oil won't get foamy after multiple batches.

    And you want to eat that just so they dont have to change the oil? Really?

    Doesn't really bother me since I eat it once in awhile.
  • CoachReddy
    CoachReddy Posts: 3,949 Member
    From the McD website

    Re Chips/Fries


    French Fries: Potatoes, canola oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, safflower oil, natural flavour (vegetable source), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (maintain colour), citric acid (preservative), dimethylpolysiloxane (antifoaming agent) and cooked in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with THBQ, citric acid and dimethylpolysiloxane).

    Why do french fries need an anti foaming agent!?

    I really have no idea :noway: so they don't "foam"?

    I think I'll stick to home grown potatoes with a little olive oil on them.

    They use it so that frying oil won't get foamy after multiple batches.

    And you want to eat that just so they dont have to change the oil? Really?

    Doesn't really bother me since I eat it once in awhile.

    So we agree that McDs should really only be a once and a while type thing. Cool. :)
  • michaela4910
    michaela4910 Posts: 544 Member
    From the McD website

    Re Chips/Fries


    French Fries: Potatoes, canola oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, safflower oil, natural flavour (vegetable source), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (maintain colour), citric acid (preservative), dimethylpolysiloxane (antifoaming agent) and cooked in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with THBQ, citric acid and dimethylpolysiloxane).

    Why do french fries need an anti foaming agent!?

    When you cook large amounts of food in oil, the oil will foam. This agent prevents this from effecting the fries and their cooking.
  • MouseTmom
    MouseTmom Posts: 201 Member
    The Southwest Salad with Grilled Chicken is wonderful!!
  • PikaKnight
    PikaKnight Posts: 34,971 Member
    I don't eat meat, but I like the fries.

    the fries aren't vegetarian.

    Nope, they are covered in beef fat or some other revolting ****e :laugh:
    This is true. They cook the fries in the fat which comes off of the hamburgers during cooking. That is their secret to the fries having a unique flavor they say. They are not vegetarian.

    This is not true, the fries are cooked in 100% vegetable oils. There used to be animal fats in them years ago but that is a thing of the distant past.
    Most of which are actually worse for you than animal fats.
    True! Vegetable oil, like margarine is FAKE fat. It is artificial fat and very, very bad for you. One should use REAL oil instead. Such as coconut oil or olive oil. Again, yet ANOTHER reason why I cook at home. I bake my fries from cut up red potatoes with a coating of olive oil and a shake of sea salt.

    I love your style!

    Mostly canola oil with some small amounts of corn and soybean oil because they can be brought to higher temperatures.

    French Fries: Potatoes, canola oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, safflower oil, natural flavour (vegetable source), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (maintain colour), citric acid (preservative), dimethylpolysiloxane (antifoaming agent) and cooked in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with THBQ, citric acid and dimethylpolysiloxane).
    dimethylpolysiloxane and dimethylpolysiloxane YUM! Just what my body needs. It's said, "if you can't pronounce it, you shouldn't eat it." That is poison.

    Can you pronounce all of these?
    neohesperidin, naringin, rhoifolin, lonicerin, hesperidin, and other polymethoxyflavonoids (tangeretin, nobiletin, sinensetin, auranetin, rutin, etc.) dimethoxycoumarin and umbelliferone, citraurin, violaxanthin, and cryptoxanthin.

    I know I can't..but doesn't mean I think orange peels are something to turn from :)
  • PikaKnight
    PikaKnight Posts: 34,971 Member
    From the McD website

    Re Chips/Fries


    French Fries: Potatoes, canola oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, safflower oil, natural flavour (vegetable source), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (maintain colour), citric acid (preservative), dimethylpolysiloxane (antifoaming agent) and cooked in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with THBQ, citric acid and dimethylpolysiloxane).

    Why do french fries need an anti foaming agent!?

    I really have no idea :noway: so they don't "foam"?

    I think I'll stick to home grown potatoes with a little olive oil on them.

    They use it so that frying oil won't get foamy after multiple batches.

    And you want to eat that just so they dont have to change the oil? Really?

    Doesn't really bother me since I eat it once in awhile.

    So we agree that McDs should really only be a once and a while type thing. Cool. :)

    Sure. Whether it is a few times a week, month, or year - I think it's okay :)
  • CoachReddy
    CoachReddy Posts: 3,949 Member
    I don't eat meat, but I like the fries.

    the fries aren't vegetarian.

    Nope, they are covered in beef fat or some other revolting ****e :laugh:
    This is true. They cook the fries in the fat which comes off of the hamburgers during cooking. That is their secret to the fries having a unique flavor they say. They are not vegetarian.

    This is not true, the fries are cooked in 100% vegetable oils. There used to be animal fats in them years ago but that is a thing of the distant past.
    Most of which are actually worse for you than animal fats.
    True! Vegetable oil, like margarine is FAKE fat. It is artificial fat and very, very bad for you. One should use REAL oil instead. Such as coconut oil or olive oil. Again, yet ANOTHER reason why I cook at home. I bake my fries from cut up red potatoes with a coating of olive oil and a shake of sea salt.

    I love your style!

    Mostly canola oil with some small amounts of corn and soybean oil because they can be brought to higher temperatures.

    French Fries: Potatoes, canola oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, safflower oil, natural flavour (vegetable source), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (maintain colour), citric acid (preservative), dimethylpolysiloxane (antifoaming agent) and cooked in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with THBQ, citric acid and dimethylpolysiloxane).
    dimethylpolysiloxane and dimethylpolysiloxane YUM! Just what my body needs. It's said, "if you can't pronounce it, you shouldn't eat it." That is poison.

    Can you pronounce all of these?
    neohesperidin, naringin, rhoifolin, lonicerin, hesperidin, and other polymethoxyflavonoids (tangeretin, nobiletin, sinensetin, auranetin, rutin, etc.) dimethoxycoumarin and umbelliferone, citraurin, violaxanthin, and cryptoxanthin.

    I know I can't..but doesn't mean I think orange peels are something to turn from :)

    I didnt realize those ingredients were artificially added to oranges! Fascinating.

    Also, you eat orange rinds?
  • SwimFan1981
    SwimFan1981 Posts: 1,430 Member
    I don't eat meat, but I like the fries.

    the fries aren't vegetarian.

    Nope, they are covered in beef fat or some other revolting ****e :laugh:
    This is true. They cook the fries in the fat which comes off of the hamburgers during cooking. That is their secret to the fries having a unique flavor they say. They are not vegetarian.

    This is not true, the fries are cooked in 100% vegetable oils. There used to be animal fats in them years ago but that is a thing of the distant past.
    Most of which are actually worse for you than animal fats.
    True! Vegetable oil, like margarine is FAKE fat. It is artificial fat and very, very bad for you. One should use REAL oil instead. Such as coconut oil or olive oil. Again, yet ANOTHER reason why I cook at home. I bake my fries from cut up red potatoes with a coating of olive oil and a shake of sea salt.

    I love your style!

    Mostly canola oil with some small amounts of corn and soybean oil because they can be brought to higher temperatures.

    French Fries: Potatoes, canola oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, safflower oil, natural flavour (vegetable source), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (maintain colour), citric acid (preservative), dimethylpolysiloxane (antifoaming agent) and cooked in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with THBQ, citric acid and dimethylpolysiloxane).
    dimethylpolysiloxane and dimethylpolysiloxane YUM! Just what my body needs. It's said, "if you can't pronounce it, you shouldn't eat it." That is poison.

    Can you pronounce all of these?
    neohesperidin, naringin, rhoifolin, lonicerin, hesperidin, and other polymethoxyflavonoids (tangeretin, nobiletin, sinensetin, auranetin, rutin, etc.) dimethoxycoumarin and umbelliferone, citraurin, violaxanthin, and cryptoxanthin.

    I know I can't..but doesn't mean I think orange peels are something to turn from :)

    I didnt realize those ingredients were artificially added to oranges! Fascinating.

    Also, you eat orange rinds?

    I wish someone would throw an amusing GIF in to this thread.....
  • CoachReddy
    CoachReddy Posts: 3,949 Member
    From the McD website

    Re Chips/Fries


    French Fries: Potatoes, canola oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, safflower oil, natural flavour (vegetable source), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (maintain colour), citric acid (preservative), dimethylpolysiloxane (antifoaming agent) and cooked in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with THBQ, citric acid and dimethylpolysiloxane).

    Why do french fries need an anti foaming agent!?

    I really have no idea :noway: so they don't "foam"?

    I think I'll stick to home grown potatoes with a little olive oil on them.

    They use it so that frying oil won't get foamy after multiple batches.

    And you want to eat that just so they dont have to change the oil? Really?

    Doesn't really bother me since I eat it once in awhile.

    So we agree that McDs should really only be a once and a while type thing. Cool. :)

    Sure. Whether it is a few times a week, month, or year - I think it's okay :)

    I guess seeing as how you eat nothing but processed foods thats not really surprising. Agree to disagree. :flowerforyou:
  • randimarie1125
    randimarie1125 Posts: 147 Member
    I don't eat meat, but I like the fries.

    the fries aren't vegetarian.

    Nope, they are covered in beef fat or some other revolting ****e :laugh:
    This is true. They cook the fries in the fat which comes off of the hamburgers during cooking. That is their secret to the fries having a unique flavor they say. They are not vegetarian.

    This is not true, the fries are cooked in 100% vegetable oils. There used to be animal fats in them years ago but that is a thing of the distant past.
    Most of which are actually worse for you than animal fats.
    True! Vegetable oil, like margarine is FAKE fat. It is artificial fat and very, very bad for you. One should use REAL oil instead. Such as coconut oil or olive oil. Again, yet ANOTHER reason why I cook at home. I bake my fries from cut up red potatoes with a coating of olive oil and a shake of sea salt.

    I love your style!

    Mostly canola oil with some small amounts of corn and soybean oil because they can be brought to higher temperatures.

    French Fries: Potatoes, canola oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, safflower oil, natural flavour (vegetable source), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (maintain colour), citric acid (preservative), dimethylpolysiloxane (antifoaming agent) and cooked in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with THBQ, citric acid and dimethylpolysiloxane).
    dimethylpolysiloxane and dimethylpolysiloxane YUM! Just what my body needs. It's said, "if you can't pronounce it, you shouldn't eat it." That is poison.

    Can you pronounce all of these?
    neohesperidin, naringin, rhoifolin, lonicerin, hesperidin, and other polymethoxyflavonoids (tangeretin, nobiletin, sinensetin, auranetin, rutin, etc.) dimethoxycoumarin and umbelliferone, citraurin, violaxanthin, and cryptoxanthin.

    I know I can't..but doesn't mean I think orange peels are something to turn from :)

    I didnt realize those ingredients were artificially added to oranges! Fascinating.

    Also, you eat orange rinds?

    I think we all need a fat mcchicken, and some fries! y'all are too much! Its just mcdonalds!
  • PikaKnight
    PikaKnight Posts: 34,971 Member
    I don't eat meat, but I like the fries.

    the fries aren't vegetarian.

    Nope, they are covered in beef fat or some other revolting ****e :laugh:
    This is true. They cook the fries in the fat which comes off of the hamburgers during cooking. That is their secret to the fries having a unique flavor they say. They are not vegetarian.

    This is not true, the fries are cooked in 100% vegetable oils. There used to be animal fats in them years ago but that is a thing of the distant past.
    Most of which are actually worse for you than animal fats.
    True! Vegetable oil, like margarine is FAKE fat. It is artificial fat and very, very bad for you. One should use REAL oil instead. Such as coconut oil or olive oil. Again, yet ANOTHER reason why I cook at home. I bake my fries from cut up red potatoes with a coating of olive oil and a shake of sea salt.

    I love your style!

    Mostly canola oil with some small amounts of corn and soybean oil because they can be brought to higher temperatures.

    French Fries: Potatoes, canola oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, safflower oil, natural flavour (vegetable source), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (maintain colour), citric acid (preservative), dimethylpolysiloxane (antifoaming agent) and cooked in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with THBQ, citric acid and dimethylpolysiloxane).
    dimethylpolysiloxane and dimethylpolysiloxane YUM! Just what my body needs. It's said, "if you can't pronounce it, you shouldn't eat it." That is poison.

    Can you pronounce all of these?
    neohesperidin, naringin, rhoifolin, lonicerin, hesperidin, and other polymethoxyflavonoids (tangeretin, nobiletin, sinensetin, auranetin, rutin, etc.) dimethoxycoumarin and umbelliferone, citraurin, violaxanthin, and cryptoxanthin.

    I know I can't..but doesn't mean I think orange peels are something to turn from :)

    I didnt realize those ingredients were artificially added to oranges! Fascinating.

    Also, you eat orange rinds?

    Orange peels? Yes. I do :) It's a great treat in Hawaii :)

    Or how about this then :)

    Water, glucose, fructose, galactose, phenolic glycosides, 6-deoxyaldohexoses (fuctose and rhamnose), saccharose, galacturonans, (1-4) linked D-galactopiranuronic acid, pectin, pectinic acids, polygalacturonic acids, pectinestarase, Citric Acid, L-Malic Acid, D-Isocitric Acid, Oxalic Acid, Succinic Acid, Malonic Acid, Quinic Acid, Tartaric Acid, Adipic Acid, 2-ketogluratic Acid, praline, asparagines, aspartic acid, serine, glutamic acid and arginine. oxidoreductases, transferases, hydrolases and lyases, isomerases and ligases, glucosilglucerides, Carotenoids, tetraterpenes, limonin, aslimonoic acid A-ring lactone, neohesperidosides, flavones (3-hydroxyflavanones, 3-dydroxyflavones, O-glycosyl, aglycones C-glycosylflavones, Anthocyanins, (hesperidin, naringin, poncirin, neoheriocitrin, neohesperidin, rhoifolin, rutin, diosmin, sinensetin, auranetin, tangeritin, hydroxyethylrutinosideres, nobiletin cyanidin-3-glucoside, cyanidina-3.5-diglucoside, peonidin-5-glucoside, delphinidin-3-glucoside, petunidin-3-glucoside, Vitamin C (Ascorbic Acid), Pholacine, Vitamin B6, Thiamine, Riboflavin, Biotin, Pantotenic acid, Vitamin A.

    It's the ingredients for the whole orange. So even without the peel - still some ingredients I can't pronounce..but maybe that's just me :)
  • michaela4910
    michaela4910 Posts: 544 Member
    I don't eat meat, but I like the fries.

    the fries aren't vegetarian.

    Nope, they are covered in beef fat or some other revolting ****e :laugh:
    This is true. They cook the fries in the fat which comes off of the hamburgers during cooking. That is their secret to the fries having a unique flavor they say. They are not vegetarian.

    This is not true, the fries are cooked in 100% vegetable oils. There used to be animal fats in them years ago but that is a thing of the distant past.
    Most of which are actually worse for you than animal fats.
    True! Vegetable oil, like margarine is FAKE fat. It is artificial fat and very, very bad for you. One should use REAL oil instead. Such as coconut oil or olive oil. Again, yet ANOTHER reason why I cook at home. I bake my fries from cut up red potatoes with a coating of olive oil and a shake of sea salt.

    I love your style!

    Mostly canola oil with some small amounts of corn and soybean oil because they can be brought to higher temperatures.

    French Fries: Potatoes, canola oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, safflower oil, natural flavour (vegetable source), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (maintain colour), citric acid (preservative), dimethylpolysiloxane (antifoaming agent) and cooked in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with THBQ, citric acid and dimethylpolysiloxane).
    dimethylpolysiloxane and dimethylpolysiloxane YUM! Just what my body needs. It's said, "if you can't pronounce it, you shouldn't eat it." That is poison.

    These are both common food additives in many applications of foods that have a tendency to foam when cooking. You probably eat other foods with it and don't even know it. Unless you don't eat in restaurants at all and eat nothing but raw unprepared foods.
  • PikaKnight
    PikaKnight Posts: 34,971 Member
    From the McD website

    Re Chips/Fries


    French Fries: Potatoes, canola oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, safflower oil, natural flavour (vegetable source), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (maintain colour), citric acid (preservative), dimethylpolysiloxane (antifoaming agent) and cooked in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with THBQ, citric acid and dimethylpolysiloxane).

    Why do french fries need an anti foaming agent!?

    I really have no idea :noway: so they don't "foam"?

    I think I'll stick to home grown potatoes with a little olive oil on them.

    They use it so that frying oil won't get foamy after multiple batches.

    And you want to eat that just so they dont have to change the oil? Really?

    Doesn't really bother me since I eat it once in awhile.

    So we agree that McDs should really only be a once and a while type thing. Cool. :)

    Sure. Whether it is a few times a week, month, or year - I think it's okay :)

    I guess seeing as how you eat nothing but processed foods thats not really surprising. Agree to disagree. :flowerforyou:

    Yep. I eat raw foods and processed foods...and I like the mixture just fine :) And definitely agree to disagree :):flowerforyou:
  • S_U_M_M_E_R
    S_U_M_M_E_R Posts: 220 Member
    I don't eat meat, but I like the fries.

    the fries aren't vegetarian.

    Nope, they are covered in beef fat or some other revolting ****e :laugh:
    This is true. They cook the fries in the fat which comes off of the hamburgers during cooking. That is their secret to the fries having a unique flavor they say. They are not vegetarian.

    This is not true, the fries are cooked in 100% vegetable oils. There used to be animal fats in them years ago but that is a thing of the distant past.
    Most of which are actually worse for you than animal fats.
    True! Vegetable oil, like margarine is FAKE fat. It is artificial fat and very, very bad for you. One should use REAL oil instead. Such as coconut oil or olive oil. Again, yet ANOTHER reason why I cook at home. I bake my fries from cut up red potatoes with a coating of olive oil and a shake of sea salt.

    I love your style!

    Mostly canola oil with some small amounts of corn and soybean oil because they can be brought to higher temperatures.

    French Fries: Potatoes, canola oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, safflower oil, natural flavour (vegetable source), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (maintain colour), citric acid (preservative), dimethylpolysiloxane (antifoaming agent) and cooked in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with THBQ, citric acid and dimethylpolysiloxane).
    dimethylpolysiloxane and dimethylpolysiloxane YUM! Just what my body needs. It's said, "if you can't pronounce it, you shouldn't eat it." That is poison.

    Can you pronounce all of these?
    neohesperidin, naringin, rhoifolin, lonicerin, hesperidin, and other polymethoxyflavonoids (tangeretin, nobiletin, sinensetin, auranetin, rutin, etc.) dimethoxycoumarin and umbelliferone, citraurin, violaxanthin, and cryptoxanthin.

    I know I can't..but doesn't mean I think orange peels are something to turn from :)
    Why does this not surprise me. Enjoy your orange peels. LOL. Google this, "health concerns in eating orange peels".
  • You only live once, so friggin' GO FOR IT!!!!
  • CoachReddy
    CoachReddy Posts: 3,949 Member
    I don't eat meat, but I like the fries.

    the fries aren't vegetarian.

    Nope, they are covered in beef fat or some other revolting ****e :laugh:
    This is true. They cook the fries in the fat which comes off of the hamburgers during cooking. That is their secret to the fries having a unique flavor they say. They are not vegetarian.

    This is not true, the fries are cooked in 100% vegetable oils. There used to be animal fats in them years ago but that is a thing of the distant past.
    Most of which are actually worse for you than animal fats.
    True! Vegetable oil, like margarine is FAKE fat. It is artificial fat and very, very bad for you. One should use REAL oil instead. Such as coconut oil or olive oil. Again, yet ANOTHER reason why I cook at home. I bake my fries from cut up red potatoes with a coating of olive oil and a shake of sea salt.

    I love your style!

    Mostly canola oil with some small amounts of corn and soybean oil because they can be brought to higher temperatures.

    French Fries: Potatoes, canola oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, safflower oil, natural flavour (vegetable source), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (maintain colour), citric acid (preservative), dimethylpolysiloxane (antifoaming agent) and cooked in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with THBQ, citric acid and dimethylpolysiloxane).
    dimethylpolysiloxane and dimethylpolysiloxane YUM! Just what my body needs. It's said, "if you can't pronounce it, you shouldn't eat it." That is poison.

    These are both common food additives in many applications of foods that have a tendency to foam when cooking. You probably eat other foods with it and don't even know it. Unless you don't eat in restaurants at all and eat nothing but raw unprepared foods.

    Those of us who try to avoid processed foods probably dont eat much of the above. On occasion, maybe, but I'd rather accidentally eat it once in a blue moon than donit on purpose daily... but thats a personal choice. You dont have to agree.
  • SwimFan1981
    SwimFan1981 Posts: 1,430 Member
    Why does this not surprise me. Enjoy your orange peels. LOL. Google this, "health concerns in eating orange peels".

    :laugh: I like you :flowerforyou: