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Originally Posted by sadie147  Well since the patty is 100% ground beef, and has no hydrogenated fats in it, i'd aassume then the fats you are seeing in the sandwich listing are coming from their processed cheese, big mac sauce etc. the buns i noticed have hydrogenated fats in them.
I still say the 100% ground beef is a far better choice than the chicken.
Unfortunately they don't give the nutritional info without the buns and sauces and cheeses. |
The McDonald's site does allow you to break down each sandwich ingredient by ingredient. There
APPEAR to be no trans fats in the sauces, cheese or bun. It's all in the patty. What's interesting, however, is that the trans fat total doesn't equal the subtotals above (i.e. the patty will say 1.0 and there will be no other ingredients with trans fats in them, but the total will be 1.5 - there's a .5 of trans fats somewhere. Perhaps that's a rounding issue, and there may be, say .3 transfat in the cheese, and they don't have to disclose it with the ingredient, but when it comes to the totals, it shows up. So, I guess you might be right that there might be <.5 transfat in the bun/cheese. That being said, most folks on Atkins should/would definitely skip the bun and probably that processed cheese anyway.)
I absolutely agree that "chicken" isn't really "chicken" at these places. But, knowing what I know about trans fats, I'll skip them when I can in favor of chicken that might have more, but albeit less harmful, ingredients in them. Alas, that's obviously just my preference/personal opinion though!