Want
to keep eating that conveniently easy and ready to go meal? Take a look at some
interesting fast food facts before answering that.
American's thrive on everything quick,
convenient and easy — and food is no different. We live in a world of getting
what we want now and never having to wait. Though this can be great for some
things, like receiving important emails on our phones, it's not great when it
comes to food and our health. Other than fresh fruits and vegetables, good
healthy food that isn't packed with preservatives isn't quick to prepare and
isn't always convenient. It is always worth the wait in the long run, though.
As
you can see these fast food companies aren’t as safe and clean as you would
think.
Nowadays,
Fast food is the preferred choice, but how safe is this food? Sometimes does
the industry cut out corners just to make a quick buck, and one of these
corners is your health.
We all know fast food isn't the healthiest
of options — but these facts may surprise you and deter you even further from
those convenient chain restaurants. Think and do your research next time, you
might be surprised on what you’ll find out. This is not the case with all
restaurants but some points and several things have been reported too often.
Take a look for yourself!
Foods
Fries
1. The French fries are usually not fresh, one way to make sure they are is to order them without salt. They’ll have to cook a fresh batch and you can add your own salt later.
2. French fries are the most popular type of fast food in America.
Which rank the unhealthiest? The large fries at Five Guys have nearly 1,500 calories and 71 grams of fat Dairy Queen's regular-sized fries have more than 700 calories, Arby's curly fries have more than 600 calories and McDonald's have 570 calories.
3. Certain fast food chain fries are riddled with preservatives to prevent any sort of bacterial or mold growth. In this case it lasts for over three years.
1. The French fries are usually not fresh, one way to make sure they are is to order them without salt. They’ll have to cook a fresh batch and you can add your own salt later.
2. French fries are the most popular type of fast food in America.
Which rank the unhealthiest? The large fries at Five Guys have nearly 1,500 calories and 71 grams of fat Dairy Queen's regular-sized fries have more than 700 calories, Arby's curly fries have more than 600 calories and McDonald's have 570 calories.
3. Certain fast food chain fries are riddled with preservatives to prevent any sort of bacterial or mold growth. In this case it lasts for over three years.
Hamburgers
1. McDonald’s hamburgers don’t really rot. The burgers have very low moisture content, which basically leaves the meat dehydrated. It’s more like jerky than burger.
2. White Castle burgers have five holes in them so that they can cook all the way through without being flipped.
3. One patty from a burger can contain meat from up to 100 different cattle.
4. Some fast food chains' burgers look identical after 14 years of aging. What are we really eating?
5. You know those awesome grill marks on fast food burgers? Well, those aren't real... They're actually put there during their factory phase. Gross.
6. That chili you ordered is usually made out of left over hamburger meat.
1. McDonald’s hamburgers don’t really rot. The burgers have very low moisture content, which basically leaves the meat dehydrated. It’s more like jerky than burger.
2. White Castle burgers have five holes in them so that they can cook all the way through without being flipped.
3. One patty from a burger can contain meat from up to 100 different cattle.
4. Some fast food chains' burgers look identical after 14 years of aging. What are we really eating?
5. You know those awesome grill marks on fast food burgers? Well, those aren't real... They're actually put there during their factory phase. Gross.
6. That chili you ordered is usually made out of left over hamburger meat.
Pizza
1. Pizza Hut made a delivery to the International Space Station in 2001. It cost around $1,000,000.
2. Before 2013, Pizza Hut was the number one purchaser of kale. They didn’t even serve it though – they used it as a decoration in their salad bars.
3. Pizza Hut sued Papa John’s once because they thought that “fresher ingredients” didn’t really make “better pizza.”
4. Pizza Hut uses 300 million pounds of cheese each year. That’s about 3% of all the cheese produced in the United States.
5. Domino’s Pizza cancelled their “30 minutes or less” guarantee because drivers kept getting into accidents while rushing to deliver pizzas. The guarantee led to at least one fatality.
6. Fast food companies load up their kid’s meals with extra sugar to make them more appealing to kids. Adding sugar to pizza crust is not unusual.
1. Pizza Hut made a delivery to the International Space Station in 2001. It cost around $1,000,000.
2. Before 2013, Pizza Hut was the number one purchaser of kale. They didn’t even serve it though – they used it as a decoration in their salad bars.
3. Pizza Hut sued Papa John’s once because they thought that “fresher ingredients” didn’t really make “better pizza.”
4. Pizza Hut uses 300 million pounds of cheese each year. That’s about 3% of all the cheese produced in the United States.
5. Domino’s Pizza cancelled their “30 minutes or less” guarantee because drivers kept getting into accidents while rushing to deliver pizzas. The guarantee led to at least one fatality.
6. Fast food companies load up their kid’s meals with extra sugar to make them more appealing to kids. Adding sugar to pizza crust is not unusual.
Chicken
1. After he left KFC, Colonel Sanders grew to hate the company. He once described the food as “the worst fried chicken I’ve ever seen” and said the gravy was like “wallpaper paste.”
2. Because of a successful marketing campaign 40 years ago, KFC chicken has become a popular destination for Christmas dinner in Japan. Some customers place their Christmas orders two months in advance.
3. Two companies prepare KFC’s Original Recipe chicken. One company only has half of the secret recipe, and the other company has the second half. The complete recipe only exists in one place: locked inside a vault at KFC’s headquarters.
4. Chick-Fil-A is not closed on Sundays for religious reasons. They close on Sundays because the founder didn’t like working on Sundays.
5. The first 100 people who go to a new Chick-Fil-A when it opens get a free meal every week for a year.
6. The chicken is primarily fat mixed in with blood vessels and nerves. In fact 55 percent of the chicken is fat; the rest is feathers, skin and corn with chemicals, preservatives, hydrogenated fats and petroleum. Oh, and it is washed in ammonia.
1. After he left KFC, Colonel Sanders grew to hate the company. He once described the food as “the worst fried chicken I’ve ever seen” and said the gravy was like “wallpaper paste.”
2. Because of a successful marketing campaign 40 years ago, KFC chicken has become a popular destination for Christmas dinner in Japan. Some customers place their Christmas orders two months in advance.
3. Two companies prepare KFC’s Original Recipe chicken. One company only has half of the secret recipe, and the other company has the second half. The complete recipe only exists in one place: locked inside a vault at KFC’s headquarters.
4. Chick-Fil-A is not closed on Sundays for religious reasons. They close on Sundays because the founder didn’t like working on Sundays.
5. The first 100 people who go to a new Chick-Fil-A when it opens get a free meal every week for a year.
6. The chicken is primarily fat mixed in with blood vessels and nerves. In fact 55 percent of the chicken is fat; the rest is feathers, skin and corn with chemicals, preservatives, hydrogenated fats and petroleum. Oh, and it is washed in ammonia.
Nuggets
1. McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets come in four shapes and they all have names: the boot, the ball, the bone, and the bell.
1. McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets come in four shapes and they all have names: the boot, the ball, the bone, and the bell.
Fillet
1. McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish was originally developed for Catholic customers, since they generally abstain from eating meat on Fridays.
1. McDonald’s Filet-O-Fish was originally developed for Catholic customers, since they generally abstain from eating meat on Fridays.
Taco
1. Taco Bell has attempted to open stores in Mexico two different times. Their food was labeled as “American Food.”
2. The meat in certain fast food sandwiches is a restructured meat product containing pig innards, tripe, heart, scalded stomach and a whole lot of salt. It also contains a flour bleaching agent. Mmm.
3. The ground beef at one Mexican fast food chain is actually only 36 percent meat.
4. An Alabama law firm once sued Taco Bell, claiming that their meat mixture “does not meet the minimum requirements set by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to be labeled as ‘beef.’” (They later withdrew the lawsuit.)
1. Taco Bell has attempted to open stores in Mexico two different times. Their food was labeled as “American Food.”
2. The meat in certain fast food sandwiches is a restructured meat product containing pig innards, tripe, heart, scalded stomach and a whole lot of salt. It also contains a flour bleaching agent. Mmm.
3. The ground beef at one Mexican fast food chain is actually only 36 percent meat.
4. An Alabama law firm once sued Taco Bell, claiming that their meat mixture “does not meet the minimum requirements set by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to be labeled as ‘beef.’” (They later withdrew the lawsuit.)
Burrito
1. Panera Bread once sued Qdoba because they argued that burritos are sandwiches.
1. Panera Bread once sued Qdoba because they argued that burritos are sandwiches.
Waffle
2. Because of the restaurant’s reputation to stay open after disasters, the “Waffle House Index” was created as an informal assessment of the damage caused by a storm.
3. Waffle House claims to sell more steak than any other restaurant.
4. According to Waffle House, if you laid all of the bacon they serve in a year end-to-end, it would wrap all the way around the equator.
2. Because of the restaurant’s reputation to stay open after disasters, the “Waffle House Index” was created as an informal assessment of the damage caused by a storm.
3. Waffle House claims to sell more steak than any other restaurant.
4. According to Waffle House, if you laid all of the bacon they serve in a year end-to-end, it would wrap all the way around the equator.
Hash
brown
1. Hash browns are worse than cheeseburgers. Proportionately, hash browns
contain more fat and calories than a cheeseburger or even a Big Mac. Think
twice before ordering one for breakfast!
(one of my favorite foods)
Cheese
1. There is a secret menu item at Chipotle called a “quesarito.” It’s a burrito that’s wrapped in a cheese quesadilla instead of a tortilla.
2. Cheese products labeled as processed are actually loaded with additives, chemicals and flavoring that make up 49 percent of the product. Half the product isn’t even cheese.
1. There is a secret menu item at Chipotle called a “quesarito.” It’s a burrito that’s wrapped in a cheese quesadilla instead of a tortilla.
2. Cheese products labeled as processed are actually loaded with additives, chemicals and flavoring that make up 49 percent of the product. Half the product isn’t even cheese.
Eggs
1. Fast food restaurants' scrambled eggs are made out of a premixed powder-concentrate and water.
1. Fast food restaurants' scrambled eggs are made out of a premixed powder-concentrate and water.
Lemon
1. If you get a lemon in your drink you better be careful. Often the employees will not wash their hands and they’ll just lay out the lemons, cut them up, and serve them.
1. If you get a lemon in your drink you better be careful. Often the employees will not wash their hands and they’ll just lay out the lemons, cut them up, and serve them.
Ice
Cream
1. Ben and Jerry’s ice cream has chunks because Ben has anosmia, which means he can’t smell, so he relies on “mouth-feel” while eating.
1. Ben and Jerry’s ice cream has chunks because Ben has anosmia, which means he can’t smell, so he relies on “mouth-feel” while eating.
Donut
1. The original Dunkin’ Donut had a handle (to make dunking easier).
1. The original Dunkin’ Donut had a handle (to make dunking easier).
Pancake
1. IHOP adds pancake batter to their omelettes. They claim it makes them “fluffier.”
1. IHOP adds pancake batter to their omelettes. They claim it makes them “fluffier.”
Salad
1. The salads are actually loaded with propylene glycol to keep the leaves crisp. This ingredient can also be found in antifreeze and sexual lubricant.
2. Fat Taco Salad. The average fast food taco salad has more grams of fat than 16 average Boston crème pies.
3. Taco Bell's taco salad has more than 52 grams of fat. But wait… we thought we were ordering a salad. Think again — the fat grams in this specific salad are higher than the fat grams in five regular tacos combined.
4. Most restaurant’s salads contain just as many calories as one Big Mac.
5. Lots of times fast food companies’ salads are made several days in advance and just sit in the refrigerator until someone orders it.
1. The salads are actually loaded with propylene glycol to keep the leaves crisp. This ingredient can also be found in antifreeze and sexual lubricant.
2. Fat Taco Salad. The average fast food taco salad has more grams of fat than 16 average Boston crème pies.
3. Taco Bell's taco salad has more than 52 grams of fat. But wait… we thought we were ordering a salad. Think again — the fat grams in this specific salad are higher than the fat grams in five regular tacos combined.
4. Most restaurant’s salads contain just as many calories as one Big Mac.
5. Lots of times fast food companies’ salads are made several days in advance and just sit in the refrigerator until someone orders it.
Drinks
Coffee
1. About two new Starbucks have opened every day since 1987.
2. Lots of places around closing time they’ll give you decaf coffee whether you ordered it that way or not. They do this because they don’t want to clean two different coffee pots.
1. About two new Starbucks have opened every day since 1987.
2. Lots of places around closing time they’ll give you decaf coffee whether you ordered it that way or not. They do this because they don’t want to clean two different coffee pots.
Milkshakes
1. Most fast food milkshakes contain over 50 chemicals.
2. A Frosty from Wendy's contains 14 ingredients. Say what? We thought milkshakes were just milk and cream. A Wendy's Frosty, though, contains multiple "thickening agents" to spruce it up.
3. The milkshakes from these fast food restaurants contain more chemicals than your conventional fertilizer.
1. Most fast food milkshakes contain over 50 chemicals.
2. A Frosty from Wendy's contains 14 ingredients. Say what? We thought milkshakes were just milk and cream. A Wendy's Frosty, though, contains multiple "thickening agents" to spruce it up.
3. The milkshakes from these fast food restaurants contain more chemicals than your conventional fertilizer.
Sweet
Tea
1. A 30 oz. McDonald’s sweet tea has as much sugar in it as two Snickers bars.
1. A 30 oz. McDonald’s sweet tea has as much sugar in it as two Snickers bars.
Soda
1. About 50% of fast food drink dispensers have fecal bacteria on them.
2. Next time you get a drink out of a soda fountain, look up the ice chute. Quite often you can find mold.
3. The soft drinks that you drink are marked up by 1200%. That syrup in your coke cost the fast food companies only a couple of pennies.
1. About 50% of fast food drink dispensers have fecal bacteria on them.
2. Next time you get a drink out of a soda fountain, look up the ice chute. Quite often you can find mold.
3. The soft drinks that you drink are marked up by 1200%. That syrup in your coke cost the fast food companies only a couple of pennies.
Other
Surprising Facts:
1. You can’t be more than 115 miles from a McDonald’s in the continental USA.
2. At times, McDonald’s has turned away more applicants than Harvard.
3. Burger King is called “Hungry Jack’s” in Australia.
4. Wendy’s founder Dave Thomas went back to school to earn his GED at the age of 61. He didn’t want people to see his success and feel inspired to drop out of high school.
5. Chipotle buys some of their avocados from singer Jason Mraz.
6. After graduating from culinary school, Steve Ells dreamed of opening his own fine dining establishment. He started Chipotle to raise the funds for his restaurant.
7. Subway’s Italian B.M.T., is named after the Brooklyn Manhattan Transit.
8. After receiving complaints that their “footlong” sub was only 11 inches long, Subway released a statement that said, “”With regards to the size of the bread and calling it a footlong, ‘Subway Footlong’ is a registered trademark as a descriptive name for the sub sold in Subway Restaurants and not intended to be a measurement of length.”
9. Subway is the largest restaurant chain in the world. There are more Subways in the world than McDonald’s.
10. To accommodate workers at the World Trade Center construction site, Subway created a mobile restaurant that moved up the building as they finish each floor.
11. Arby’s got its name from the acronym “R.B.,” which doesn’t stand for “roast beef.” It actually stands for “Raffel brothers,” who are the founders of the restaurant.
12. Shaquille O’Neal owns about 10% of all Five Guys restaurants in North America.
13. Mark Cuban once insulted someone by saying that they “would not even be able to manage a Dairy Queen.” Dairy Queen offered Mark Cuban a chance to manage Dairy Queen, which he accepted for one day. He didn’t do a great job.
14. Dairy Queen restaurants in Texas have a different menu from all other DQ restaurants. You can only get a Steak finger Basket at a Texas Dairy Queen.
15. White Castle is the first fast food restaurant. (It was founded in 1921.)
16. Colonel Sanders’ claimed that his favorite food was White Castle.
17. Denny’s used to be open year round. When they decided to start closing for Christmas, most of the stores had to hire locksmiths to install locks.
18. The founders of Outback Steakhouse never visited Australia.
19. In a study it was found the average fast food consumer ingests around 12 pubic hairs a year.
20. Sand. Silicon dioxide (aka sand) is used as an anti-caking agent in multiple fast-food items like buffalo wings and chili. The sand helps it to be able to stay in a heater for days. Ew.
21. Beetles. If you eat something that is bright red at a fast food joint, chances are that it has Carmine. What's carmine? It's a bright red food dye. What is it made of? It's made of the crushed abdomen of a female Dactylopius coccus aka an African beetle-like insect.
22. Leftovers. In many fast food restaurants the food carries over. Leftovers, anyone?
23. Airbrushed Photos. You know those yummy burger pics that you see on billboards and at countless fast food restaurants? Well, those are airbrushed....It takes two hours to set up just one hamburger.
24. Food dyes are commonly found in fast food joints. Did you know that food dyes can actually alter your kids' behavior?
25. McDonald's is visited by 90 percent of American children on a monthly basis. You read that right. What are we feeding our kids?!
26. American's don't visit fast food chains the most. Hong Kong actually ranks number one — with 61 percent of the population visiting a fast food chain at least once per week. America came in eighth — with 35 percent claiming to eat fast food once per week or more.
27. Fast food restaurants aren't slowing down anytime soon.
28. In fast food restaurants, a lot of kitchen employees surprisingly follow the 10 second rule.
29. Fast food restaurants throw away an incredible amount of unused food every night.
30. Restaurants of the same chain can have vastly different standards and quality. It usually depends upon the management.
31. All fast food workers are supposed to wear gloves when they prepare food but most of the time nobody follows that rule.
32. Next time take a look around the parking lot, bathroom or sitting area of a restaurant. If it’s dirty, imagine what the places you can’t see look like, especially the kitchen.
33. In 1970 around $6 billion was spent on fast food. Today that number is up to $200 billion.
34. Fast food companies load up with high fructose corn syrup because it’s a cheap sweetener. It also will trick your body into wanting more of it.
35. Fast food companies are one of the top exploiters of cheap labor. They actively engage in anti union activities.
36. Cashiers are not supposed to tell you how many calories are in your dish, even if they know it. They are supposed to tell you that “All that information is available online.”
1. You can’t be more than 115 miles from a McDonald’s in the continental USA.
2. At times, McDonald’s has turned away more applicants than Harvard.
3. Burger King is called “Hungry Jack’s” in Australia.
4. Wendy’s founder Dave Thomas went back to school to earn his GED at the age of 61. He didn’t want people to see his success and feel inspired to drop out of high school.
5. Chipotle buys some of their avocados from singer Jason Mraz.
6. After graduating from culinary school, Steve Ells dreamed of opening his own fine dining establishment. He started Chipotle to raise the funds for his restaurant.
7. Subway’s Italian B.M.T., is named after the Brooklyn Manhattan Transit.
8. After receiving complaints that their “footlong” sub was only 11 inches long, Subway released a statement that said, “”With regards to the size of the bread and calling it a footlong, ‘Subway Footlong’ is a registered trademark as a descriptive name for the sub sold in Subway Restaurants and not intended to be a measurement of length.”
9. Subway is the largest restaurant chain in the world. There are more Subways in the world than McDonald’s.
10. To accommodate workers at the World Trade Center construction site, Subway created a mobile restaurant that moved up the building as they finish each floor.
11. Arby’s got its name from the acronym “R.B.,” which doesn’t stand for “roast beef.” It actually stands for “Raffel brothers,” who are the founders of the restaurant.
12. Shaquille O’Neal owns about 10% of all Five Guys restaurants in North America.
13. Mark Cuban once insulted someone by saying that they “would not even be able to manage a Dairy Queen.” Dairy Queen offered Mark Cuban a chance to manage Dairy Queen, which he accepted for one day. He didn’t do a great job.
14. Dairy Queen restaurants in Texas have a different menu from all other DQ restaurants. You can only get a Steak finger Basket at a Texas Dairy Queen.
15. White Castle is the first fast food restaurant. (It was founded in 1921.)
16. Colonel Sanders’ claimed that his favorite food was White Castle.
17. Denny’s used to be open year round. When they decided to start closing for Christmas, most of the stores had to hire locksmiths to install locks.
18. The founders of Outback Steakhouse never visited Australia.
19. In a study it was found the average fast food consumer ingests around 12 pubic hairs a year.
20. Sand. Silicon dioxide (aka sand) is used as an anti-caking agent in multiple fast-food items like buffalo wings and chili. The sand helps it to be able to stay in a heater for days. Ew.
21. Beetles. If you eat something that is bright red at a fast food joint, chances are that it has Carmine. What's carmine? It's a bright red food dye. What is it made of? It's made of the crushed abdomen of a female Dactylopius coccus aka an African beetle-like insect.
22. Leftovers. In many fast food restaurants the food carries over. Leftovers, anyone?
23. Airbrushed Photos. You know those yummy burger pics that you see on billboards and at countless fast food restaurants? Well, those are airbrushed....It takes two hours to set up just one hamburger.
24. Food dyes are commonly found in fast food joints. Did you know that food dyes can actually alter your kids' behavior?
25. McDonald's is visited by 90 percent of American children on a monthly basis. You read that right. What are we feeding our kids?!
26. American's don't visit fast food chains the most. Hong Kong actually ranks number one — with 61 percent of the population visiting a fast food chain at least once per week. America came in eighth — with 35 percent claiming to eat fast food once per week or more.
27. Fast food restaurants aren't slowing down anytime soon.
28. In fast food restaurants, a lot of kitchen employees surprisingly follow the 10 second rule.
29. Fast food restaurants throw away an incredible amount of unused food every night.
30. Restaurants of the same chain can have vastly different standards and quality. It usually depends upon the management.
31. All fast food workers are supposed to wear gloves when they prepare food but most of the time nobody follows that rule.
32. Next time take a look around the parking lot, bathroom or sitting area of a restaurant. If it’s dirty, imagine what the places you can’t see look like, especially the kitchen.
33. In 1970 around $6 billion was spent on fast food. Today that number is up to $200 billion.
34. Fast food companies load up with high fructose corn syrup because it’s a cheap sweetener. It also will trick your body into wanting more of it.
35. Fast food companies are one of the top exploiters of cheap labor. They actively engage in anti union activities.
36. Cashiers are not supposed to tell you how many calories are in your dish, even if they know it. They are supposed to tell you that “All that information is available online.”
And
one more....... 37. I hate them.
Even though we know how bad fast food is
for us, we still continue to choose to eat it time and time again. Why? Well,
it's easy, it's convenient and it really doesn't taste all that bad. Sometimes,
after a long day's work, the last thing we want to do is cook dinner. We
challenge you, though, to give up fast food for one month. We guarantee you'll
feel better (and maybe even drop a few pounds!).
I already knew fast foods are bad that's why
I pushed myself to stop eating those and it feels great. When I was still in
America few months before we leave, a friend encourages me to be healthy. She
encouraged me by telling her story when she was still a toddler her parents
don’t allow her to eat sweet, salty, greasy and foods with preservatives. She
only knew coke when she reached high school. And now, she can eat everything
without suffering any consequences. I want to do the same, I said to myself.
Then i started this January, at first it's really hard to fight especially,
when you are already used to eating those and you love it. But it only takes
discipline, knowledge, and self-control. And now, I only eat more on
vegetables, fruits, and everything that is healthy. To be honest, I still eat some
from the fast food restaurants but whenever that happens I always make sure to
eat something healthy after or I choose something more healthy and taste good
than the others.
They
say, "Suffer hunger and later you will be satisfied."
Ps:
I added number 37.
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