The Secret Behind McDonald’s

By Abygail Santos & Khushi Verma

Science Project

McDonald’s is arguably the world’s most well-known fast food chain. There are many McDonald
restaurants found in over 100 countries around the world and they serve over 40 million customers
every day. Rumors had been going around that McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets had grinded up muscle,
bones, and eyeballs, mixed with ammonia and dyed white. People wanted to know if this was true. So,
McDonald’s went to a couple of their chains and got some Chicken McNuggets. Then they went to a lab
to test them out .It comes out that this rumor wasn’t true.

The most popular meals that most kids like to buy are the McDonald French fries and Chicken
McNuggets. For drinks the most popular choice is a cup of soda. Adults prefer to have different types of
latte’s. These come in different flavors such as vanilla, hazelnut and mocha. The ingredients that these
meals are made of are:

French Fries
● Potatoes,
● vegetable oil (canola oil,
● hydrogenated soybean oil,
● natural beef flavor [wheat and milk derivatives]*,
● citric acid, dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (maintain color), salt.
● Prepared in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with TBHQ
and citric acid added to preserve freshness).
● Dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming agent.

Chicken McNuggets
● Chicken (45%) or chicken breast meat,
● Coating [Vegetable Oil (Rapeseed, Sunflower),
● Wheat Flour,
● Water (8%),
● Maize Flour,
● Modified Starch,
● Raising Agents (Disodium Diphosphate),
● Sodium Bicarbonate), Whey Powder (from Milk),
● Flavour Enhancer (Potassium Chloride),
● Egg Albumen (Free Range Egg),
● Ground Pepper,
● Breadcrumb (Wheat Flour, Salt),
● Salt,
 ● Dextrose,
● Ground Celery],
● Water (7%),
● Potato Starch,
● Vegetable Oil (Rapeseed, Sunflower),
● Natural Flavouring (from Free Range Egg),
● Flavour Enhancer (Potassium Chloride)

Hazelnut Latte
● Whole Milk
● Espresso
● Hazelnut Syrup
● Sugar
● Water
● Fructose
● Flavors
● Potassium Sorbate Preservative
● Citric Acid
● Caramel Color
● Sulfite Malic Acid

McDonald’s offers its customers with nutritional facts based on their most popular menu items. The
purpose of this is to provide a nutrition analysis to help balance McDonald’s meals with other foods you
eat. Their goal is to provide customers with the information needed to make sensible decisions about
balance, variety and moderation in your diet. These are very helpful. The nutrition facts for meals such
as French Fries, Chicken McNuggets and a Latte are as follows:

Serving Calories Saturated Cholester Carbohyd

Item Calories Total Fat Sodium Fiber Sugars Protein
Size from Fat Fat ol rates
Ketchup 1 pkg (10
10 0 0 0 0 100 3 0 2 0
Packet g)
Large
6 oz (171
French 520 220 25 5 0 330 70 7 0 6
g)
Fries
Medium
4 oz (114
French 350 150 16 3 0 220 47 5 0 4
g)
Fries
Salt 1 pkg (0.7
0 0 0 0 0 270 0 0 0 0
Packet g)
Small
2.6 oz (74
French 230 100 11 2 0 140 30 3 0 2
g)
Fries
Chicken
McNugget 5.6 oz
420 220 24 5 60 1120 26 0 0 25
s (10 (160 g)
piece)
Chicken 11.3 oz 840 440 49 11 125 2240 51 0 0 50
McNugget (320 g)
s (20
piece)
Chicken
2.3 oz (64
McNugget 170 90 10 2 25 450 10 0 0 10
g)
s (4 piece)
Chicken
3.4 oz (96
McNugget 250 130 15 3 35 670 15 0 0 15
g)
s (6 piece)

Calories Total Cholesterol Sodium

Food Item Calories Saturated Fat (g) Trans Fat (g) Carbs (g)
from Fat Fat (g) (mg) (mg)

Iced
Coffee–Hazeln 130 50 5 3.5 0 20 40 21
ut (Small)®

Iced
Coffee–Hazeln 190 70 8 5 0 30 60 29
ut (Medium)®

Iced
Coffee–Hazeln 270 100 11 7 0 40 85 43
ut (Large)®

Hazelnut Latte
230 60 7 4 0 20 90 36
(Small)®

Hazelnut Latte
280 70 8 4.5 0 25 110 45
(Medium)®

Hazelnut Latte
330 80 9 5 0 30 130 53
(Large)®

After our project, we have came to our opinion. McDonalds isnt the best when it comes
to nutritious but it isn't as worse as some rumors say. McDonald’s food isn’t bad itself its the
incidents that make our bones shiver. Some unlucky people found a bunch of disgusting things
in their food such as a chicken head, a wire brush, and a dead rat. Therefore, we never really
ate a lot at McDonalds but we probably wont be going there any soon or often.

In conclusion, McDonald’s food isn’t so unhealthy as some rumors say. But, its fast food.
So, it has to have some cons. We don’t recommend anyone to eat there because its unsanitary.

Hopefully, We changed your mind on McDonald’s.