One thing I can recommend at McD's is the Sausage McMuffin - English muffin, sausage, fresh egg, cheese (add some black pepper)
Can't imagine it being any better anywhere at any price - (save POSSIBLY cheese being real cheddar)
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Here's a link that purports to show the "contents" of a Sausage McMuffin:jmakinen wrote:Na Content:
Yeah - it is totally ridiculous for any processed food. McD's page does not give it. But am anyhow very careful with that stuff - but also with ALL processed food.
http://www.livestrong.com/thedailyplate ... in-no-egg/
....Personally, I try to avoid meat, but for carnivores this actually looks quite reasonable for a healthy start to the day...and no trans fats. However, it doesn't say what other "preservatives", etc. might be in there...and it doesn't say if this is just for the USA, or is the same throughout McD's world empire....
And I agree that it's wise to be careful with processed food....some of the "chemicals" that are used seem rather scary...though I'm sure many of them pass through the digestive tract without any problem...but how do we know?....and who can you trust with the research?... I noticed in this morning's news, yet again, some fraudulent research...the British study regarding autism and childhood vaccines.....
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That site only shows the 'no egg' version - and only covers calories.
Missing seem to be salt, sodium and preservatives contents - rather significant part of the avoidance of processed foods.
Indeed probably the biggest thing to watch out for is salt (and nitrates/nitrites.)
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And so far as the taste of the item goes - I think it is the egg that 'makes it' - it's nicely surprising that McD's uses fresh eggs in Finland.
Missing seem to be salt, sodium and preservatives contents - rather significant part of the avoidance of processed foods.
Indeed probably the biggest thing to watch out for is salt (and nitrates/nitrites.)
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And so far as the taste of the item goes - I think it is the egg that 'makes it' - it's nicely surprising that McD's uses fresh eggs in Finland.
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33% of the GDA acording totuulen wrote:Do you know about the sodium content of the Sausage McMuffin? If not, be prepared for a surprise. They could be lethal!jmakinen wrote:One thing I can recommend at McD's is the Sausage McMuffin...
http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/foo ... lds/6271/2
Here in Finland, I have done everything I can to blend-in with the Finns, I've changed my hair color, wore differnet clothes, got different
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Yeah - that sure is a lot - but am sure it's all coming from NaCl - possibly some monosodium glutamate - other processed foods are at least just as salty to my taste so it must mean there's a ton of other stuff out there that put GDA stats into the stratosphere.
Surely all the 'makkaras' will 'qualify' and a lot more stuff. Had some packaged 'graavit kirjolohi' - and cold it tasted real salty - but as was a bit fishy also - I decided to fry the rest of the pkg - WOW - it was so salty when warm that almost inedible! (salt taste being more pronounced when food warm or hot)
(Jozo has a new salt on the market - 70% less Na - too bad food processors don't start to use it)
Surely all the 'makkaras' will 'qualify' and a lot more stuff. Had some packaged 'graavit kirjolohi' - and cold it tasted real salty - but as was a bit fishy also - I decided to fry the rest of the pkg - WOW - it was so salty when warm that almost inedible! (salt taste being more pronounced when food warm or hot)
(Jozo has a new salt on the market - 70% less Na - too bad food processors don't start to use it)
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OK, so maybe one Sausage McMuffin is not too bad, but two of them have 66% of the allowance.pierrot wrote:33% of the GDA acording totuulen wrote:Do you know about the sodium content of the Sausage McMuffin? If not, be prepared for a surprise. They could be lethal!jmakinen wrote:One thing I can recommend at McD's is the Sausage McMuffin...
http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/foo ... lds/6271/2
Burger King, KFC, McDonald's, Wendy's and all of them, beware of the sodium content!
And then there are all of those bad fats which you should not eat too much of.
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irnbru wrote:None of these are in Finland. Shame really as the BK beanburger is fantastic.tuulen wrote:Burger King, KFC, McDonald's, Wendy's and all of them, beware of the sodium content!
I indulge once or twice a year and go to BK for their signature burger, the Whopper.
Decadence, yes, but tasty!
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@ jmakinen
Just today, this morning, and on your suggestion, I went to a McDonald's and had a sausage/egg McMuffin, for the first time in at least twenty years. And, by golly, it actually tasted quite good! It was much, much better than the 1980s McMuffin that I remembered.
However, each of those tasty sausage/egg McMuffins includes about 850 mg of sodium, about 1/3 of daily allowance.
Just today, this morning, and on your suggestion, I went to a McDonald's and had a sausage/egg McMuffin, for the first time in at least twenty years. And, by golly, it actually tasted quite good! It was much, much better than the 1980s McMuffin that I remembered.
However, each of those tasty sausage/egg McMuffins includes about 850 mg of sodium, about 1/3 of daily allowance.