Are McDonald's Food Healthy? from a health, hygiene and nutritional Perspective
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Sorry for the bland question and my English.
What I'm trying to say is, strictly McDonald's burgers, not fries and Coke, since they're universally not healthy.
Also, when compared to other food options, such as Italian, Chinese, and other carbs heavy options that are wildly accessible, McDonald's burgers are relatively healthier?
getting a garden salad from Maccas is like getting a hug from a s*x worker.
Sorry that I can only give you +1 for this comment, deserves more.
"Although getting a garden salad from Maccas is like getting a hug from a s*x worker."
Care to explain? Genuine question.
Sometimes he asks his sex worker for a hug and she says "that'll be $4.65 please"
Pretty sure thanks to inflation it's $69 now…
An attempt to genuinely answer a genuine question:
Maccas can offer you other food choices besides a garden salad (check their menu if you're unsure)
Similarly, a s*x worker can offer you other services besides a hug (let me Google that for you https://gprivate.com/62bgh)
In general, other food choices at Maccas can usually give you better satisfaction
Similarly, other services offered by a s*x worker can usually give you better satisfaction
Thanks @teximushin. Understand. :-)
sox?
Sax worker - someone who manufactures and assembles saxophones.
Is that a b-job?
Like most foods, it's healthy in moderation and dependent on many factors. Your open-ended undefined question cannot be answered.
You can review the nutritional information of their offerings and assess based on your personal nutritional diet and targets: https://mcdonalds.com.au/our-impact/food-quality-sourcing/nu…
I think I read that moderation in the case of McDonald's was once a week was too much
healthy in moderation
Would be far more useful and correct to say it's healthier for some people, but not most. "Moderation" is a red herring.
Very few people need the nutrition of big mac, although if all somebody normally has for dinner is meth or lollies, then yeah it's a massively healthier option and they should be supported to eat more big macs.
Bruhhh 💀
It’s poison ☠️
im not a dietitian but fries, coke and a big mac is probably not healthy…
why aren't fries healthy?
Potatoes are vegetables and vegetables are healthy
I don't see Trying2SaveABuck's point
Potatoes are vegetables and vegetables are healthy
That's what I thought too.
@AustriaBargain: I'm short on time though for cooking though so I usually start the day with a raw potato and half a cup of oil to wash it down!
@Massive Flog: 'Vegetable oil is actually toxic'
oh I dunno - which of these 19 ingredients don't you like … ?
https://globalnews.ca/news/1789231/here-are-the-19-ingredien…
I kinda like the sound of Dimethylpolysiloxane myself - is that the stuff that makes shiny ?
@Hangryuman: Looks like AU stores use different ingredients than overseas. https://mcdonalds.com.au/sites/mcdonalds.com.au/files/Core%2…
"Potato, Canola Oil, Mineral Salt (450), Dextrose, Antifoam (1521).
OR Potatoes, Canola Oil (Acidity Regulator (330)), Dextrose Monohydrate (Preservative (220)), Mineral Salt (450), Antifoam (Non-ionic polyalkylene glycol), Preservative (223).
No idea if "Non-ionic polyalkylene glycol" or 1521 "Polyethylene glycol" are any better though.
Coming from the Colonels boy's…….
If they exercise.
Potatoes are one of the Dirty Dozen. Because they are tuberous stems that grow deep in the soil, potatoes absorb pesticides sprayed above the ground like a sponge.
Just buy organic potatoes or grow your own.
@Peck: Obviously ? How else would they make French Fries for you ?
Joking aside "absorb pesticides" sounds like lefty anti-momsanto fear mongering, citation needed
Not on this year's list. Strawberries are number one
why aren't fries healthy?
Because they've been fried, so they're already dead
Name checks out
Like many things I suck on the fries and spit them out. It's healthy by not swallowing.
Old 'Hooker' rule?
swallowing never killed anyone
but but i got a diet coke
that makes it all better right
You laugh but it would considerably lower the overall calories of a meal.
Is this a troll post?
There's no poll. It's not an official troll until there's a poll.
Troll poll.
Not so sure. Perhaps a troll poll poll needed here….
Every damn popular post I read on here these days feels like a troll post. Only way to bait heaps of engagement I guess.
Their food is unhealthy but less unhealthy than its heyday when it tasted yum.
1982 Junior burger -> 2022 Hamburger = identical
Yes, McDonalds is very healthy. Is that going to make you feel better eating it now?
Yes.
if you strictly check the nutrition information of everything they have, and not to order coke/fries, you can make it healthy enough.
Yep, I don't eat the stuff (vegetarian) but the macros aren't that bad as far as eating fast food goes, provided you omit the fries / diabeetus levels of sugar in drinks
I think they sell bottles of water, plain, with no additives. From there it's all downhill though.
The salad without dressing has to be healthy. Also the burger patties are just regular 80% lean beef, as long as you aren't scared of fat then they have to be fairly healthy too. I know it's just a funny thing people say, but the McDouble is the most nutritiously complete food mankind has ever invented.
It has what plants crave!
"the McDouble is the most nutritiously complete food mankind has ever invented"
No, that's lasagne
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@Nugs AKA Garfield.
No, it's pizza
I don't know about that. Macdonalds likes to lie and tell you that their patties are 100% beef, this can't be true as I've never seen a 100% beef patty sold at a fast food shop in my life. If you go to your local Woolies you'll find that they are all 50-80% beef and I feel like they are pretty low in order to maximise profits.
You cant just assert they are lying. What you find at Woolworths has nothing to do with what Maccas sell. Different product designed to be cooked a different way (water makes up almost all the remaining 15-20% in a WW burger).
The Woolworths branded patties are 50% beef and 50% cardboard/water because Woolworths has never cares about what poor people eat. Also I suspect 80% lean beef smokes easier than the cheap cardboard patties.
McDonald's are 100% beef and it is about 80% lean, same as the standard beef mince you buy at Woolworths. They are frozen in patty form at a factory.
The quarter pounder patties are these days made of fresh mince but they used to be frozen too. It's just that recently in Australia there has been a trend for burger places to use fresh mince, just like the original McDonald's stores used to.
Can fast food be considered healthy? I'm pretty sure from a public health perspective it's not considered healthy and falls into the same category as junk food.
the only reason a cheeseburger has the pickles in it is so it can be classed as food. without the pickles it would be considered confectionary.
Yeah nah
Sure plenty of people say that but i highly doubt its true.
edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWBZCqkJLTE
It doesn't even make any logical sense. There are many things with more sugar in it that would then have to be called confectionary. Magically putting a pickle in it solves that?
I usually choose garden salad with pickles(so I can have it without dressing) and sparkling water as sides.
Sorry for the bland question and my English.
What I'm trying to say is, strictly McDonald's burgers, not fries and coke, since they're universally not healthy.
Also, when it compare to other food options, such as Italian, Chinese, and other carbs heavy options that are wildly accessible, McDonald's burgers are relatively healthier?
Your English is just fine btw, definitely better than mine.
Other than that, I’ll let the ‘experts’ here respond to your questions.. lol I don’t even ever eat McDonalds.
Just count your calories and make sure everything else you eat is varied and you'll probably be fine.
Food is just the 'input' component, to a system (your body).
After you have focused on healthier 'inputs',
focus on the 'outputs' too, ie. burning it off, eg. exercising.
All diets need a good, balanced way to burn off your stored fats,
and keep muscles in use, and giving fresh air for the brain when outdoors, etc.
Fast food is unhealthy, mainly because it is high in fat and often sugar.
McDonalds has this problem too.
Is it healthier than other fast foods? It truly is irrelevant, the recommended “occasional” fast food meal is once or twice a year (per Rosemary Stanton).
If you follow that, it doesn’t matter.
If you ignore that, and eat fast food regularly, it also doesn’t matter, because the frequent consumption will overwhelm any minuscule advantage one type has over another.
It is like asking “are .22 bullets safer than .303?”
Yes, the energy in a 303 is much higher, but I still wouldn’t like to get shot by a .22.
You really need to define which fat is unhealthy. Trans fats are really unhealthy; animal fats are not.
Again, it is irrelevant in both circumstances. Once or twice a year, no big deal. Frequent indulgence in high fat fast food will be bad, regardless of the make up of the fats.
Once a year for any take away? Damn that would suck :(
@Pinchy: I agree. All my life I heard comments like “occasional take away food can be part of a balanced diet” and assumed once a month or once a fortnight.
Then I saw an interview with the nutritionist Rosemary Stanton who spelled out she means once a year!
@TheGhost: I'm less concerned with dying younger than I am about having generally inferior health. Luckily I don't find maccas appealing so I would have it less than annually on average.
shutup
And take my money
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Yes
use to work in fcmg food manufacturing….did alot of products from big fastfood restaurants to the big2 supermarkets….lets just say if u want to eat properly u should go buy the ingredients and make it yourself at home…if u cant cook and rely on these sort of process food, then u get what you pay for…
Do you feed cattle thrown out food still in its boxes
anything that touches the ground floor goes straight to waste bins, anything still stuck on grinders or conveyor belts that doesnt get press into products goes back into production cycle…or becomes dog food
any inconsistency like plastic or metal found once it goes through metal/plastic detector machines is thrown out, even the stuff that is already grinded or batch for that hour is thrown out, sometimes u throw out like 1-2 tonne of meat for that batch alone about $10k-15k down the drain
Hygiene wise probably better than some of the other fast food, Nutritional point of view, depend what you eat, not much nutrition in a cheese burger lol
Halthy wise depend on the portion size and what items you having.
Idk how bad could the Angus burger be really especially if the sauce is ditched
The sauce is literally 50% of the total volume of the burger.
Dieticians hate this one simple trick
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Your comparing a chains burgers against a whole style of food. Ie. Chinese, Italian etc. You can't compare them properly but overall maccas buegers are worse. Added sugars, salt, oils and the fact that ppl rarely just eat a burger, is worse than a lot of other takeaway.
compare the calories and ingredients and tell yourself which has been processed less before you ingest it and there's your answer.
Way i see it , they are all equally bad, chinese take away dont have full of salt and sugar ? Italian more like a carb bomb.
Ok let's make it more specific then: a Big Mac with small chips (bottled water for drink) for $10++, vs KFC spicy chicken and chips, vs the famous and popular Chinese egg fried rice for $10++, vs the Italian pasta with butter and cheese for $30++.
Which one is worse?
POLL PLEASE. So everyone (not on meth) can say No twice. Once on the poll and another in the comments. Macdonalds and their food scientists are evil.
What makes it unhealthy is the amount of fat (or saturated fat) present in Maccas. You can deep fry your typical garden salad and convert it to an unhealthy meal. If there is very little fat in your large angus meal, which composes of carbs, protein, some veg and minimum sugar from choosing a diet coke, this to me is a healthy meal.
It’s also because everything is highly processed.
People need to eat fibre, you aren’t getting any of that from processed food.
Since the food is so highly processed and lacks fibre, when you eat it it gets digested quickly and spikes your insulin which causes issues such as inflammation.
McDonalds….Healthy…..hahahahahahahahahahah
I dunno bout healthy. but the double 1/4 pounder I got yesterday was 2 bits of substance about s thick as a 50cent piece, in 2 bits of something they call a roll then looked like someone stood on it… no lettuce/tomato nothing….
few weeks ago bloke at work got a Mcsomething called chicken that only had 1/2 of the bun
From a weightless perspective, anything is acceptable.
https://coach.nine.com.au/latest/personal-trainer-eats-mcdon…
From a balanced macronutrient perspective, probably not by itself.
From a micronutrient perspective, you are probably not getting all you need.
Well the buns are full of sugar so not healthy. The insides would be better but still not a stable diet. We order from the breakfast meal and get bacon/sausage/egg/cheese (think I had to order my first one in person then add my code and now I go to previous orders to get it) which is a once a week meal.
All bread has sugar in it. Same amount as McDonald's buns.
I mean you can get a garden salad from Maccas so I would say it depends.
Although getting a garden salad from Maccas is like getting a hug from a s*x worker.