McDonald’s french fries. Let’s face it. Everybody loves them all over the globe, but did you ever wonder exactly how these famous fries are made? Grant Imahara, former TV Mythbusters host, found out the recipe when he headed to Idaho, the location for McDonald’s processing plant.
Strangely enough, these yummiest fries on the planet are too complicated for a do-it-yourself recipe at home. In fact, Imahara discovered that the fries are created with 14 ingredients, including four different kinds of oils, four potato varieties and even some dimethylpolysiloxane, which is a form of silicone found in Silly Putty. Don’t worry though, because all the top-secret ingredients are safe, even the odd additives, according to the plant processing experts.
The fries go through a lot before we recognize their golden, slender stick shapes in the familiar, red McDonald’s boxes. The fries are fried twice- once at the factory, and then shipped to McDonald’s outlets across the country where they are fried for a second time at the fast food restaurants. McDonald’s fries are so delicious that maybe the true secret is in the beef flavoring used to season the potatoes before the first partial frying.
Whatever it is in the complicated 14-ingredient recipe, these fries remain addictive to many. A large McDonald’s fry might not be the healthiest at 510 calories, 6gms of protein, 24gms of fat, 67gms of carbs and 290mgms of sodium, but it sure tastes divine and remains king at the fast food chains.