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Does McDonald's use 'pink slime' in burgers or beef treated with ammonia?
Nope. Our beef patties are made from 100% pure beef. We season with just a punch of salt and pepper, otherwise nothing else is added. No fillers, no additives and no preservatives.
Why does McDonald's offer cheaper menu items than some other restaurants?
We serve more than 27 million customers every day, so we buy in bulk. And, as anyone who’s ever shopped at a warehouse club can attest to, that means lower prices. Those savings are then passed along to you.
Are McDonald's burgers fresh or frozen?
Our 100% beef is ground, formed into patties, and then flash frozen. Flash freezing is when beef is quickly frozen to seal in fresh flavor. From the day it was formed, it usually takes about two to three weeks until the burger is served.
How do you make your beef patties?
McDonald's burgers are made of 100% ground beef, formed into hamburger patties, and then quickly frozen at our suppliers to seal in great fresh flavor.
What kind of beef does McDonald's use in your burgers?
Every one of our McDonald's burgers is made with 100% pure beef and cooked and prepared with salt, pepper and nothing else—no fillers, no additives, no preservatives. We use the trimmings of cuts like the chuck, round and sirloin for our burgers, which are ground and formed into our hamburger patties.
Claim
McDonald's buys their meat from a company called '100% Beef,' which allows them to legally but deceptively claim they use 100% beef in their hamburgers.
Origin
Distrust of large corporations (which are thought willing to do just about anything to increase profits) and unease with what might have been deliberately incorporated into food not prepared by our own hands have served to create product rumors about inferior or even yucky ingredients being slipped into the fast foods we routinely ingest.
Nutritional information
Having a quick look at what’s in a McDonald’s hamburger as outlined in their nutritional information shows a fairly harmless ingredient list:
The Ingredient Breakdown
Only looking at par reading the ingredient list is not enough. You have to dive deeper to understand what is in it and whether or not the ingredients are as real as they are advertised and mentioned in the nutritional chart.
What is Pink Slime?
Pink slime is basically the Ammonium Hydroxide that is not something you should eat. This chemical ingredient is most commonly used for household cleaning purposes and even the main ingredient of homemade explosives. Its use in fertilizers is also clear to everyone.
The most shocking part?
The quality of the beef is still a great question because some sources say that the beef of the McDonald’s hamburgers come from the CAFO (concentrated agricultural feeding operation) cows which are the sick cows and their meat can make you sick too.
Hygiene is incredibly important within the factory
Before entering, you have to put on protective clothing and wash your hands thoroughly.
The meat is checked to ensure there are no bones
The first thing you see in the factory is where the incoming meat is checked.
After being checked, the meat is put in containers of about 500 kilograms (about 1,100 pounds) each
One cow can produce about 100 kilograms of meat, so you could find meat from five or six cows in one container.
Another machine shapes the minced meat into burger patties
A mix of fresh and frozen beef is used to quickly bring the burgers to a temperature of -18 degrees Celsius.
These machines are incredibly cold
Though the room is about 12 degrees Celsius, the machines are much colder.
A few burgers are always tested
The reason that burgers are tested is to ensure the fat content is right, for safety reasons.
Once frozen, the hamburgers disappear into blue plastic bags and then into boxes
McDonald's can say with reasonable certainty that nothing will be inside the burgers that shouldn't be, as the hamburgers go through a metal detector once packed.
