Want Fries with your Order?
May 29th, 2020
Although we are rarely asked what’s in our french fries, we do get lots of comparisons to what Americans consider the flagship of fries – the ones that come in the red and yellow cardboard container underneath those yellow arches. Our list is a rather boring list since we make fries with only two (2) ingredients. We julienne russet potatoes and then double-fry them in trans-fat-free rice bran oil. But, back in 2015, in its effort for transparency, the clown-led, mega-chain published its list of ingredients using former Mythbusters host, Grant Imhara, in a video that you can find on Youtube.
To save you from the search (and several wasted hours getting side-tracked by kitten and bikini fishing videos) I’ll share their published ngredients list in the U.S.A.:
1. Potatoes
2. Canola oil
3. Soybean oil
4. Hydrogenated soybean oil
5. Natural beef flavor
6. Hydrolyzed wheat
7. Hydrolyzed milk
8. Citric acid
9. Dimethylpolysiloxane
10. Dextrose
11. Sodium acid pyrophosphate
12. Salt
13. Corn oil
14.Tertiary Butylhydroquinone
The first ingredient that neither you nor I can pronounce (#9) is used as an anti-foaming agent in the fryer oil. It is a silicone-based polymer and also used as a lubricant and conditioning agent in caulks and adhesives. The last unpronounceable ingredient (#14) is a synthetic antioxidant that is added to foods to prevent or delay oxidation.
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