Fast Food Burgers: Do You Know What They’re Made Of?
There are many myths about the raw materials used in the so-called fast food and just as many researches carried out to understand what is really in these foods. Read on as we are about to unravel the mystery about the ingredients of burgers sold by fast food restaurants!
Junk food: increasingly present in our diet
Junk food, known in English as junk food, has many negative effects on our health. If we add to this a sedentary lifestyle – very frequent in today’s society – it is not illogical to think that we need to change something in our diet and in our habits.
The food that is offered to us when we are away from home is not exactly healthy, quite the opposite. However, there are many countries where it is more common to eat a hamburger than a salad. Therefore, we do not talk about eating fast food every now and then, to give ourselves something tasty or to please the child. We are talking about the many people who eat junk food more than twice a week.
Burgers, as well as other foods of this type, contain a high amount of animal protein, additives, preservatives, dyes, flavor enhancers, sugar, saturated fat, sodium and many calories. As if that were not enough, they provide us with neither fiber nor vitamins. Fast food ingredients, however loud this word sounds, are addictive.
It is for this reason that once children have discovered these places, they no longer want to eat vegetables or other foods prepared by their parents. A similar mechanism occurs in adults, especially since targeting these foods is faster and easier than having to cook.
If we often eat these foods:
- cholesterol levels rise
- we begin to have bone problems (due to low calcium intake)
- cardiovascular diseases
- overweight
- constipation
- caries
- general deterioration of health
- heavy and slow digestion
- change in taste
- biochemical changes in the brain (as if it were a drug)
Reasons not to eat fast food burgers
If, in addition to wanting to eat healthier, you are a lover of the environment and ecology, then you have one more reason to abandon these foods. Between the chemical poisons (which cause cancer and chronic disease) and the consequences on the planet, there is no need to add more.
A hamburger contains a long list of additives that are harmful to health, which is why it is not considered a healthy food, in addition to the calories and fat it contains.
In 2011, the well-known chef Jamie Oliver, in an episode of his program, had shown that burgers are not suitable for human consumption. According to the chef, the meat used was a waste product, made edible only when treated with ammonium hydroxide.
He then unraveled the mystery of what he called “pink slime”, used to fill chicken nuggets, hot dogs and hamburgers.
Speaking of ecology, however, we cannot ignore that fast food meat comes from intensive farming. The animals are poorly fed, unable to move and the methods of death slow and painful.
The chickens are over-fed, the eggs are hatched by hens piled in small cages; the cows are forced into confined spaces, fed on corn or soy (even going so far as to undergo an operation to remove one of the stomachs), so that they gain weight faster. In addition, the cows are injected with large amounts of antibiotics and hormones.
In order to meet the great demand for meat, businesses devastate extensive wooded and forested areas. In their place they grow soy for breeding.
Not to mention the damage to the environment caused by packaging and packaging products.
What do fast food foods contain?
People who have worked in fast food restaurants have told their experience and revealed what is contained in the most popular menus in the world. The information has also become accessible thanks to the social network Reddit, which brings together many former fast food workers.
They said, for example, that the appearance of raw burgers when delivered to the restaurant is far from being a medallion of meat and even less from the image of the advertisements. For this reason, they are cooked as much as possible and then covered with sauce.
Although the cleaning fees are very strict, the employees, for lack of time, always use the same oil to fry everything.
An official statement from the world’s best-known hamburger chain states that no preservatives are added. In reality, in a hamburger you can find substances as difficult to read as to write (trichloroethane, dieldrin, ethylbencene, among many).
This is why we can leave a burger out in the open for a long time before it goes bad.
These are some of the good reasons to give up fast food and start consuming more natural foods. There are many healthy alternatives these days that are just as quick and easy to prepare.
