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Most health-conscious individuals avoid fast food restaurants such as McDonald’s at all costs, and for good reason.
Fast food chains often use genetically modified ingredients, artificial sweeteners in sodas, heavy metals across the board, high-fructose corn syrup as a cheap yet deadly sweetener, and a variety of other toxic chemicals.
In fact, oftentimes fast food ‘meat’ products are comprised of synthetic meat ingredients — it even says so on the official recipe. Below are three of the worst offenders.
1. Wendy's Frosty
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What truly reaches a new level in synthetic toxicity, however, is Wendy’s new Coffee Toffee Twisted Frosty.
With the addition of ’coffee syrup’ and ‘coffee toffee pieces’ comes an extra 25 ingredients, including a laxative chemical known as propylene glycol that is also used as a filler in electronic cigarettes.
Along with the synthetic laxative comes 7 sugars including high-fructose corn syrup, and 3 different oils. Coffee, the main focus of the beverage, is listed at the very end of the nutrition label — number 8 out of the 10 total base ingredients.
2. Chicken McNuggets
Chicken McNuggets would appear to contain bread and chicken, perhaps a bit of seasoning for flavor. What it actually contains has given it a reputation as one of the worst food items on the planet. The meat alone in McNuggets is compromised of 7 different ingredients, many of which are made up of several other ingredients. Some ingredients that make up the ‘meat’ include sodium phosphate, safflower oil, wheat starch, dextrose, and a particularly dangerous substance known as autolyzed yeast extract. Autolyzed yeast extract is similar to MSG, an artificial flavor enhancer that has been linked to obesity and other health conditions.
Frighteningly, these are not the worst chemicals found in McNuggets. Dimethylpolysiloxane, a type of silicone, is added as an anti-foaming agent to the nuggets. This is the same ingredient that is used in breast implants and silly putty, yet McNuggets are marketed towards children with complete disregard for their health.
Although not quite as common today, PDMS has also been used in breast implants as a filler fluid. In addition, it is also widely in cosmetics and consumer products.
Dimethylpolysiloxane is being phased out as a breast plant filler due to safety concerns, yet McDonald’s has been using it in their McNuggets which are being consumed by millions worldwide.
3. McDonald’s Salads
McDonald’s salads, often pushed as a healthier alternative to other fast food items on the menu, contain cilantro lime glaze and the orange glaze. Within the glaze lies propylene glycol — a chemical that is not legal to use in cat food because its safety has not yet been proven. In addition, propylene glycol is also used ”as the killing and preserving agent in pitfall traps, usually used to capture ground beetles.”
McDonald’s salads also contain two ingredients that divulge the presence of MSG: disodium inosinate, and disodium guanylate. Chemical-loaded salads are no better than other menu items which have similar recipes and equally-devastating ingredients.
Fast food establishments as a whole are extremely harmful to human health worldwide, contributing not only to soaring obesity rates, but to cancer, diabetes, and other crippling diseases as well. It is important to remember that the ingredients are key to determining the health of a food item, and they should be thoroughly examined before making the purchase.
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13 comments:
that is disgusting
MSG is not an artificial sweetener. It is a flavor enhancer. It increases the salty taste in food, not the sugar.
Most of these artificial food-like products are present to some degree in almost all foodstuffs that have undergone processing to maintain freshness. In other words, unless you grow it, kill or pick it, and prepare it yourself, you are getting dosed at some level with these chemical compounds.
That being said, Chicken McNuggets are just plain nasty, gag-a-maggot awful.
The add the anti-foaming agent to keep you from vomiting the second this crap hits your stomach.
Disgusting. And to think little children are consuming all those horrible chemicals. And the government are letting them too, uch.
Plant a garden, eat whole foods and shop organic. It'll save you money in the long run not having to pay those health bills for avoidable illness. Get healthy!
Malthus would be proud
Extremely important article. I am sharing it with some friends who still think fast food isn't 'that bad'.
I don't think there is any question fast food borders on poison. But I find propaganda, even if used for a good cause, unsettling. Comparison propaganda attempts to make a substance seem better or worse by comparing it to another, 'exciting' substance. Such as "this product contains water...if you don't know what water is, it is a substance that makes up the bulk of ANTI-FREEZE!". So now you know how dangerous water is! Its irrelevant, as it stands alone, whether something is used in breast implants. The comparison has no validity towards proving it safe or not. It is used only to sensationalize, which is beneath this site. Polypropylene Glycol is, in fact, the main ingredient in Electronic cigarettes, a substance 'generally' regarded as safe. Of course, like many substances, the long term effects (of anything) could be real. But if people aren't keeling over directly inhaling gallons of the stuff (for 3 years now without incident) I think we need not shake in our boots over it...just yet. The negative health effects of MSG, and HFCS are real and documented through epidemiology. It is a noble act to warn people of fast food dangers, but it's disingenuous to use the "its used in rat poison" kind of meaningless comparisons. When I see such rhetoric, I tend to tune out the entire article, which is a shame. Its base message is important.
smokers mix propylene glycol with distilled water for cigar humidors
In reply to Anonymous who posted at 5:13 p.m.
Can you think of a better way to get the point across to people that most of what's in fast food is pure and simple poison? Whether you liked the presentation or not, the message is still clear to all but a complete and total idiot. Yes, water is included in a lot of things but it isn't the culprit, at least not one that we're blaming. They keep adding fluoride to the water, however, and it will continue to have dire consequences, too.
I say whatever it takes to get people's attention.
Reminds me of an old Girl Scout camp song
McDonald's is my kind of place
They serve you rattlesnakes
French fries up your nose
Pickles between your toes
Don't forget those dirty shakes
They come from polluted lakes
McDonald's is my kind of place
McDonald's is my kind of place
They give you bellyaches
Don't eat a Big Mac
You'll have a heart attack
Last time that I was there
They fried my underwear
McDonald's is my kind of place
I think there is way too much pointing a finger at McDonalds all the time. Open up your kitchen cabinets and start reading the labels! And all FDA approved! The focus should be on what the FDA approves of that is known to be bad....not on McDonalds or Wendys. But you might want to take a look at the cereal that you are feeding to you kids, along with any of your boxed, canned, or frozen convenience foods. And take a look at what what they give to the cows, chickens, and pigs you are eating! All FDA approved! Wake up America!
"Can you think of a better way to get the point across to people that most of what's in fast food is pure and simple poison?"
Who do you think this convinces? Such over-the-top zealotry combined with a lack of knowledge of chemistry and the commonality of most of the "monsters" described here, make these perennial lists something that 98% of the population ignore as rantings from the tin-hat crowd.
Is fast-food unhealthy? Damn skippy. Are there real concerns about the corporate agro-business goliath in the first world? Of course. Do you think anyone other that those who already are on your side stop to listen to what you say after you scream "Look at all the CHEMICALS!!!"? No, we don't.
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