Paul Saladino· MD
McDonald’s fries have 19 ingredients. Seed oils, fake beef flavoring, and chemicals.
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McDonald’s fries have 19 ingredients. Seed oils, fake beef flavoring, and chemicals.
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these fries have 19 ingredients 19 ingredients in these fries they are cooked in four different types of seed oils corn soybean partially hydrogenated soybean oil which is going to have a lot of trans fats and canola oil what else is in here dimethyl polyoxin it's a huge word it's an anti foaming agent used in the oils and the friers it's a silic con derivative that is also found in silly putty they also contain tbq a chemical preservative which is associated with Cancers in lab animals
french fries 19 ingredients four different types of seed oils aluminum preservatives