8 Fast Food Facts To Feed Your Curiosity

1. A 32oz McDonald's sweet tea has as much sugar in it as two and a half Snickers bars.

So when you think you're making a healthier choice by ordering the "tea" instead of pop, think again. Both are loaded with candy bar levels of sugar. Plus, the sweet tea has about 100mg of caffeine to super-charge your sugar rush and leave you feeling horrible in a few hours.

2. "With cheese" doesn't really mean you what you think it does.

In fact, it means about half of what you think it does: only slightly over half of what's called "processed cheese" on your burger is actually cheese. The other half is filled with added whey, salt, emulsifiers, milk, preservatives and artificial food colorings. The distinction between real and processed cheese is legally mandated, too. That's right, it's illegal to sell processed cheese as "cheese;" instead, it has to be labeled as "cheese food."



3. Fast food salads are one of their unhealthiest menu items.

Many have been benchmarked against the infamous Big Mac with horrendous results. For instance, this lower-calorie salad, called the "Chicken BLT Garden Fresh Salad," from Burger King will still set you back 550 calories, 37 grams of fat and a tremendous 1640 milligrams of salt. Might I remind you this is for a SALAD?!

4. McDonald's "strawberry milkshake" has 59 ingredients...

and sadly, not one of them is strawberries.

5. Fast food meat for sandwiches often contains hearts, tripe, intestines, stomachs, flour bleaching agents and heavy doses of added salt.

Mmmm! Not.


6. Nearly half of all soda pop fountains tested found bacteria on them that grew in fecal matter.

Oh dear...



7. Bright red fast foods are made with carmine. That's crushed abdomens from female beetle-like bugs.
This is what they look like:



8. And if it's not beetles coloring your food, it's likely artificial dyes.

Yes, there are mixed results about the consequences of consuming too many artificial food dyes, especially in regards to children's health. However, that doesn't negate studies that have shown consuming artificial food dyes, especially red and yellow, can cause increased hyperactivity in children.