Rinse & rePeat
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Here is the ingredients in a Burger King bun and French fries. I have never seen that many ingredients in store bought buns or fries…@Rinse & rePeat
I think it is a myth stereotype that fast food is worse.
Its worse than organic meat, but otherwise it’s basically the same as other foods you get.
Meaning for example the burger buns at mcdonalds burger king etc are the same buns you buy at the store. Same ingredients. Gluten and non organic wheat has pesticide and other issues in general, but the burger buns ae mostly the same everywhere.
The beef you are getting at mcdonalds or burger king is the same as beef elsewhere. If you don’t buy organic grass fed beef, you are likely getting mcdonalds quality beef. Fast food often uses frozen beef, but a lot of fast food or fast casual places also offer fresh non frozen beef.
The big concern at restaurants in general is they could be using iodized salt. Meat is almost always non organic eating out.
One big concern is a lot of people think restaurants like chipotle, cava, mezeh, qdoba, etc are healthier or better than fast food. Their bread might be better quality than fast food burger buns. But if you check their ingredients, all these places literally soak their rice in sunflower oil, rice bran oil or other PUFA oil. Those restaurants also literally cook their meat in sunflower or other PUFA oil, including chipotle.
So you are literally much better off getting something like a Mcdouble, or just eating plain beef patties from mcdonalds burger king or five guys, than getting meat and rice from places like cava or chipotle.
Taco bell is probably the worst out there, basically every food item is soaked in PUFA, and its all soybean oil.
With most restaurants you dont even get better quality... for instance cheesecake factorys burger is like $15. Its not really better than fast food beef, its just fresher, angus beef and a larger patty. But a concern with Cheesecake Factory is, their beef patties seem to be cooked in pufa oil and their buns are too. Their beef patties and buns are extremely greasy, they seem to be one of the few places that soak burger patties and buns in oil. The bun seems like a higher quality brioche bun, digests better than cheap burger buns, but its soaked in pufa which is ridiculous. Their fries are cooked in soybean oil too.
WHOPPER®/BURGER/SPECIALTY BUNS: Enriched flour (niacin, iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, and folic acid), water, sugar (sucrose or high fructose corn syrup), sesame seeds, vegetable shortening, salt, wheat gluten, yeast, yeast food (calcium sulfate, potassium iodate, and/or ammonium sulfate), dough conditions (polysorbate 60, calcium peroxide [oxidant], calcium salts, sulfates, phosphates, and ammonium salts), dough strengtheners (sodium and/or calcium-2-steroyllactylate or ethoxylated mono- and diglycerides), dough softeners (mono- and diglycerides, and/or protease enzyme), mold inhibitor (calcium propionate), preservative (potassium sorbate), oxidation/reduction additives (ascorbic acid, potassium/calcium iodate, alpha-amylase, azodicarbonamide), leavening agent (monocalcium phosphate).
FRENCH FRIES: Potatoes, partially hydrogenated vegetable shortening (soybean oil), modified potato and corn starch, rice flour, dextrin, salt, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate), corn syrup solids, xanthan gum, dextrose.
ONION RINGS: Rehydrated onion, bleached wheat flour, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, water, yellow corn flour, sugar, contains 2% or less of the following: gelatinized wheat starch, corn starch, calcium chloride, modified food starch, methylcellulose, salt, fructose, guar gum, sodium alginate, yeast, sodium bicarbonate, glucano delta lactone, sodium tripolyphosphate, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate, natural onion flavor, garlic powder, hydroxy propyl methylcellulose, sorbitol. Prepared in partially hydrogenated vegetable shortening.