What do you see?

Yeah it looks like a regular bread bun with some regular tomato sauce, preserved pickles, a regular meat patty but once you look inside it, you'll reveal the truth about a Maccas burger. Now what are the ingredients used to produce this chemical laden burger?

100% Beef Patty:

Ingredients: 100% pure USDA inspected beef; no fillers, no extenders.

Regular Bun:

Ingredients: Enriched flour (bleached wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), water, high fructose corn syrup and/or sugar, yeast, soybean oil and/or canola oil, contains 2% or less of the following: salt, wheat gluten, calcium sulfate, calcium carbonate, ammonium sulfate, ammonium chloride, dough conditioners (may contain one or more of the following: sodium stearoyl lactylate, datem, ascorbic acid, azodicarbonamide, mono- and diglycerides, ethoxylated monoglycerides, monocalcium phosphate, enzymes, guar gum, calcium peroxide), sorbic acid, calcium propionate and/or sodium propionate (preservatives), soy lecithin.

Look at all these ingredients! Sulfates, chlorides, peroxides, acids, what even is propionate? Did you know you can make bread with only flour, water and yeast? There are 35 types of chemicals in a McDonalds bun so next time think about whether you want to be eating these.

Ketchup:

Ingredients: Tomato concentrate from red ripe tomatoes, distilled vinegar, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, water, salt, natural flavors (vegetable source)

As if HFCS isn’t enough… let’s add some regular corn syrup to the mix, not to mention that most corn is GMO (genetically modified by a bunch of scientists in a lab).

Mustard:

Ingredients: Distilled vinegar, water, mustard seed, salt, turmeric, paprika, spice extractive.

Yeah, seems legit but what is this spice extractive? Just another word for chemical.

Pasteurized Process American Cheese:

Ingredients: Milk, water, milkfat, cheese culture, sodium citrate, salt, citric acid, sorbic acid (preservative), sodium phosphate, color added, lactic acid, acetic acid, enzymes, soy lecithin (added for slice separation)

Why Pasteurized Process American Cheese, why not just regular cheese?

Pickle Slices:

Ingredients: Cucumbers, water, distilled vinegar, salt, calcium chloride, alum, potassium sorbate (preservative), natural flavors (plant source), polysorbate 80, extractives of turmeric (color).

So there is polysorbate, but why does it need a number? Why does our food need numbers?

Onions:

Ingredients: Chopped onions.

Finally. An ingredient list I can read. Of course, I prefer my veggies organic (locally grown is even better) to avoid pesticides, but so far the onions are your safest bet.

All this in a 'harmless' burger from Maccas. Next time, think about what you eat.