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Definitely tangential to the main point, but I don't really think it's accurate what one of the biologists implies about McDonald's food: > “It’s basically wha
by adrianmonk 9y ago
Definitely tangential to the main point, but I don't really think it's accurate what one of the biologists implies about McDonald's food:
> “It’s basically what you’d get at McDonald’s,” said Dr. Bäckhed said. “A lot of lard, a lot of sugar, and twenty percent protein.”
As far as I can tell, McDonald's stopped frying their french fries in lard back in 1990 and other products before then. (See http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1990-07-24/business/9003020215_1_terri-capatosto-fast-food-firm-fast-food-industry http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1990-07-24/business/90030... .)
Fast food has plenty of nutrition problems, but it doesn't seem helpful to make up ones that don't actually exist.
Maybe he just used the wrong word since he's from Sweden, though.
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- bagacrap 9y agoGiven that the rest of the sentence refers to sugar and protein, he probably means fat. Non-native speaker and/or mildly inaccurate translation. Lard isn't really worse for you than other fats anyway, so I'm not sure why he'd focus on that.
- oldcynic 9y agoWhich is a shame really as the tastiest chips are fried in lard, or better still, beef dripping. Not very accommodating to vegans however.
- IntronExon 9y agoThe most common food other than fries McDonalds is known for would be hamburgers. I’m guessing that’s what they’re thinking of as a source of animal fat. Possibly he meant tallow, as in beef tallow, which is also what they used to fry their fries in. Now they use an additive to replace the flavor, while using vegetable oil. https://www.wired.com/2014/07/whats-inside-mcdonalds-french-fries/ https://www.wired.com/2014/07/whats-inside-mcdonalds-french-... It wouldn’t shock me to hear someone referring to tallow as lard.