Eric Schlosser's book Fast Food Nation has a section called "Why McDonald's Fries Taste so Good". I found this section particularly interesting becasue of the information he highlights regarding the production of the fires. The oil they cook the pre-made fries in is "a mixture of about seven percent cottonseed oil and 93 percent beef tallow. The mixture gave the fries their unique flavor -- and more saturated beef fat per ounce than a McDonald's hamburger."
Honestly, thats gross. Who wants beef fat in their potatoes? So obviously they changed this, and now the fries have "natural flavors" in them instead to add the beef flavor.
These are all genetically modified or man made, right on the Jersey Turnpike!
"International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF), the world's largest flavor company, has a manufacturing facility off Exit 8A in Dayton, New Jersey; Givaudan, the world's second-largest flavor company, has a plant in East Hanover. Haarmann & Reimer, the largest German flavor company, has a plant in Teterboro, as does Takasago, the largest Japanese flavor company. Flavor Dynamics has a plant in South Plainfield; Frutarom is in North Bergen; Elan Chemical is in Newark. Dozens of companies manufacture flavors in the corridor between Teaneck and South Brunswick. Altogether the area produces about two thirds of the flavor additives sold in the United States."
Honestly, thats gross. Who wants beef fat in their potatoes? So obviously they changed this, and now the fries have "natural flavors" in them instead to add the beef flavor.
These are all genetically modified or man made, right on the Jersey Turnpike!
"International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF), the world's largest flavor company, has a manufacturing facility off Exit 8A in Dayton, New Jersey; Givaudan, the world's second-largest flavor company, has a plant in East Hanover. Haarmann & Reimer, the largest German flavor company, has a plant in Teterboro, as does Takasago, the largest Japanese flavor company. Flavor Dynamics has a plant in South Plainfield; Frutarom is in North Bergen; Elan Chemical is in Newark. Dozens of companies manufacture flavors in the corridor between Teaneck and South Brunswick. Altogether the area produces about two thirds of the flavor additives sold in the United States."
It is crazy to think that most of the time the flavors in our food were made in a factory or lab and put into the food. I may think twice about eating McDonalds lies, I mean fries again.