Medical Opinion
See What ' s Really in Your Fast Food
French Fries The humble potato, fried in a vat of simmering oil, and finished with a sprinkling of salt. What could be simpler? Apparently, quite a lot. Fast-food fries often have more than 15 ingredients, including sugar and artificial coloring. They also have preservatives like sodium acid pyrophosphate and tert-butylhydroquinone, which in high doses has been linked to vision problems.
Soda It’ s the same soda you buy at the grocery store. But when you get it at a fastfood chain, you get more calories because the drink sizes are so large. And we’ re not talking“ supersize.” A medium soda at a typical fast-food place is about 30 ounces and has about 300 calories. And studies show that if you order it, you’ ll drink it.
Hot Dog What’ s in them? Let’ s just say they make full use of the animals that supply the meat. They’ re also loaded with salt and saturated fat( which most people get too much of) and with nitrates, a preservative linked to diabetes and cancer.
Sauces The first ingredient listed for almost any sauce served at a fast-food restaurant is sugar. It may be called sucrose, dextrose, maltose, rice syrup, barley malt, high-fructose corn syrup, or any number of other things, but the end result is the same: quick delivery of lots of calories with almost zero nutritional value.
Hamburgers Ground beef, right? Sure-- but there also may be growth hormones and antibiotics, which can end up in your system. And in one study, some burgers had over 100 calories more per serving than the fast-food places said they did.
Strawberry Milkshake Besides milk and sugar, one leading fastfood outlet also adds high-fructose corn syrup, preservatives like sodium benzoate, and artificial flavors and colors to this drinkable dessert. One thing that appears to be missing: actual strawberries.
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