Book report on Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

A Summary of the Book Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser

Customers , food critic and competitors are all praises over McDonald 's French fries for its unique and distinctive taste . However , its taste has nothing to do with neither the potatoes that they use nor their cooking equipment . The source of its distinctive taste has largely to do with cooking oil which is a mixture of 7 percent cottonseed oil and 93 percent beef tallow , which also explains why it has more saturated fat per ounce than a McDonald 's hamburger

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switched to using pure vegetable in 1990 when they started getting criticisms about the high amount of cholesterol in their fries . This move gave them a whole new challenge on how to maintain the distinctive beefy taste in their fries , which sets them apart from the rest , without using the fat saturated beef tallow . The problem was solved by adding flavor to their fires . A closer examination of their ingredients will show you natural flavor ' which is hardly natural as natural flavor ' and artificial flavor ' are both man-made . It explains why McDonald 's fries , as well as American food in general , tastes so good

The flavor industry is very secretive when it comes to their clients They deem it of utmost importance to protect the reputation of these popular brands and understandably so since they would like to give the consumers the impression that the flavors and delectability of their food comes from their kitchens and not from...