Most of us love ordering fast food.  It saves us time in preparing and cooking our own food and it taste great.  But a lot of us don’t know what ingredients were used to come up with our fast-food favorites.  Before you gobble your way through another value meal, take time reading this to understand what’s really in your food.

1. A normal nugget would contain chicken and breading.  But the meat in the McNugget contains 7 ingredients like water, wheat starch, dextrose, safflower oil and sodium phosphates and some of these ingredients are made up of more ingredients. The breading is made up of another 20 ingredients.  Wendy’s Chicken Nuggets contain 30 ingredients while Burger King’s Chicken Fries contains 35 ingredients.

2. Making a traditional Wendy’s Frosty requires 14 ingredients.  Thickening agents like guar gum, cellulose gum and carrageenan are some of the ingredients used.

3. The Fillet-O-Fish sandwich is made from a gnarly, crazy eyed fish called Hoki.  Hoki is found in the cold waters off the coast of New Zealand.  When New Zealand was forced to cut the allowable catch of hoki to keep their population from collapsing, the Alaskan Pollock was used as an alternative.

4. Salami used for sandwiches is made from slaughterhouse leftovers.  A mechanical process is done to strip the bone of the last remaining bits of meat and this is used to make salami.  The meat is processed using lactic acid, a bunch of salt and spices that makes up a total of 15 ingredients.