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Looks like fries have wheat, I didn't know.......


the list of ingredients in McDonald<http://www.examiner.com/topic/mcdonald>'s French fries<http://www.examiner.com/topic/french-fries> are not just potatoes. The list of ingredients to make the French fries that you enjoy will surprise you. How many ingredients do you think are in McDonald's French fries that people love so much?

McDonald's hired former "MythBusters" host Grant Imahara to look into common consumer questions about various items on the fast-food chain's menu as part of its campaign, "Our Food. Your Questions." The promotional campaign that began in October 2014 promises to inform the public about how McDonald's food is processed, cooked and served. The question that comes up most often is how McDonald's french fries are cooked to taste so different from french fries at other fast-food restaurants. Imahara traveled McDonald's potato processing plant in Idaho to see the production process from start to finish. He found that including the potato, there are 19 ingredients in McDonald's french fries.

USA Today<http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2015/01/23/mcdonalds-shows-what-goes-into-french-fries/22211397/> reported that up to 2,400 ton of potatoes per day are taken from a farm and chiseled into the perfect stripes at a Lamb Weston processing plant. The potatoes are cut into fries at about 70 miles per hour by a massive potato-cutting machine that looks like a giant wood chipper.

According to McDonald's, before the fries can be frozen and shipped off, they're dipped in dextrose for that golden fried color. Then they partially cooked in hydrogenated soybean oil with natural beef flavor, canola oil, corn oil, hydrolyzed wheat, hydrolyzed milk, citric acid, and the antioxidant TBHQ which preserves the freshness of the oil. Dimethylpolysiloxane, an anti-foaming agent is added to keep the oil from splattering. Sodium acid pyrophosphate is added to prevent the fries from turning grey after freezing. Salt is sprinkled on for flavor.

The potatoes are partially fried onsite to get a crispy shell and then become frozen through a "freeze tunnel" to allow them to be shipped to McDonald's restaurants across the country. The frying is finished at McDonald's restaurants. Therefore, most of the preparation is done before the potatoes even reach your local McDonald's. In other words, the fries are fried twice; once at the factory and again at the restaurant.

Even though the fries are dipped in various ingredients, fried and frozen, they do come from real potatoes. McDonald's uses a variety of potatoes, including Ranger Russet, Umatilla Russet, Russet Burbank and Shepody. Watch the video above to see how McDonald's french fries are made. A large serving of the finished product contains 510 calories, 6 gms of protein, 24 gms of fat, 67 gms of carbs and 290 mgs of sodium.




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