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Do you know exactly what goes into the fast food that you buy? Let’s take a look at what goes into a normal (slow made) strawberry milkshake and a fast food strawberry milkshake. I think you will be very surprised at the difference between the two.

Old fashioned strawberry milkshake:

Milk, cream, sugar, ice, vanilla beans, strawberries

Fast food version:

Milkfat and nonfat milk, sugar, sweet whey, high-fructose corn syrup, guar gum, monoglycerides and diglycerides, cellulose gum, sodium phosphate, carrageenan, citric acid, E129 and artificial strawberry flavour.

But wait, the”artificial strawberry flavour” has ingredients in it as well:

Amyl acetate, amyl butyrate, amyl valerate, anethol, anisyl formate, benzyl acetate, benzyl isobutyrate, butyric acid, cinnamyl isobutyrate, cinnamyl valerate, cognac essential oil, diacetyl, dipropyl ketone, ethyl butyrate, ethyl cinnamate, ethyl heptanoate, ethyl heptylate, ethyl lactate, ethyl methylphenylglycidate, ethyl nitrate, ethyl propionate, ethyl valerate, heliotropin, hydroxyphrenyl- 2-butanone (10% solution in alcohol), ionone, isobutyl anthranilate, isobutyl butyrate, lemon essential oil, maltol, 4-methylacetophenone, methyl anthranilate, methyl benzoate, methyl cinnamate, methyl heptine carbonate, methyl naphthyl ketone, methyl salicylate, mint essential oil, neroli essential oil, nerolin, neryl isobutyrate, orris butter, phenethyl alcohol, rose, rum ether, undecalactone, vanillin and solvent.

Source: Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser (Published in Conversations, 7th edition)

Ever hear of the saying “you are what you eat”? Well, I hope that I am not all of those chemicals. This my friends, is called processed food. What happened to the old fashioned way of doing things? I think this is a direct result of our planet getting lazy.

Justin

Tags: fast food, mcdonalds, milk shake, old fashioned, processed food

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