20 facts about fast food that McDonald's is hiding

Fast food around the world is becoming more popular, but how safe it?





Sometimes, in order to increase profits, the fast food restaurants are making certain compromises. And these compromises will inevitably affect your health.

We invite you to read 20 interesting facts about fast food that may make you less likely to go out for a hamburger.

1. French fries is almost never fresh. And to hide it in the restaurants where they sell fast food, make it very salty. Order fries without salt, if necessary, salt it, you will always be able. So you save yourself from the risk to eat "old" potatoes.

2. Most of the salads at McDonald's and other such establishments have the same calories as the burgers.

3. In many Western restaurants of networks of McDonald's, Burger King, KFC and others give the opportunity to pour himself a soda. How much you want. But the research shows that the apparatus, it pours, half of the cases are fecal bacteria. Not all people are so thoroughly wash hands in the toilet like you.

4. McDonald's is the largest purchaser of beef, pork and potatoes in the world and the second largest customer of chicken meat. Their need for French fries is 7.5% of the total potato crop of America.

5. Fast food restaurants throw away a huge amount of spoiled food every night.

6. Restaurants one network can comply with completely different standards of quality. It largely depends on the managers of the institution, and not from a franchise.

7. All employees of such establishments should wear gloves while cooking. But most of them violate this rule.

8. In 1970 in the world on fast food people spent $6 billion, Today this figure has grown to $200 billion a year. Over the last 20 years the number of children in the world who are overweight has increased almost three times.

9. Soft drinks that you buy in these restaurants, sold nosredna markup at 1200%. Glass of drink, which you can sell for a dollar, costs only a few cents. So the total profit from the sale of soft drinks in fast food restaurants is usually much more than the actual from the trade sandwiches.

10. Do not buy milkshakes. Some of them can contain up to 50 different chemicals.

11. Most manufacturers of carbonated drinks used as a sweetener honey not sugar and cheap corn syrup. The degree of privatemode it is still higher than in the case of sugar.

12. One hamburger can contain the meat of hundreds of different cows.

13. In Dallas there is a fast food restaurant, which bills itself as the most harmful in the world. Its name — Heart Attack Grill — translated as "bar and Grill heart attack."

The main menu here — 900-gram Burger Quadruple Bypass Burger, the energy value of which is equal to 8000 kcal. And drinking cream ButterFat Shake, as it is written in the menu, contains a record in the world the amount of cholesterol. The waitresses of the places I go in the uniform of nurses with stethoscopes, and those who ordered a large Burger, have the right to ride in a wheelchair.

14. In 2006, McDonald's changed the shape of the cups for McFlurry ice cream under pressure of activists for the protection of hedgehogs. The fact that hedgehogs, licking the remnants of ice cream in discarded cups, sometimes thrust his head inside, but could not stick and died from hunger. The hole in the lid of the Cup was reduced to Jerzy could no longer fall into the trap.

15. Monthly until 90% of all US children at least once visited the McDonald's restaurant chain.

16. Obesity is the second cause of premature death after Smoking in the USA.

17. The first printed mention of the Burger appeared in the Los Angeles Times in 1894.

18. When McDonald's opened its point in Kuwait immediately after the Gulf War, lined up in a queue of cars reached 11 miles.

19. Because McDonald's initially did not want to remain in place for long, then almost immediately renounced all kinds of entertainment machines. Uncomfortable chairs for visitors here, too, appeared not by chance, but consciously.

20. Out of respect for the Hindu religion in India does not serve burgers, and in Germany, McDonald's sold beer.

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