Did you realise that when you eat the above mentioned typical fast food meal you are actually eating almost entirely genetically modified corn! Pretty scary stuff and certainly not good for your overall health.
Let’s analyse the meal a bit further and start with the coke (or other flavoured soft drink). The coke obtains 100% of its calories from a corn derivative being high fructose corn syrup (HFCS).
The burger contains beef generally from farm fed cows with controlled diets that usually consist of mainly corn. The cheese which is in most burgers is also produced from these same cows therefore making the burger almost entirely derived from corn.
The bun on the burger contains corn derivatives including HFCS with the remainder of the calories in the bun coming from refined wheat flour and possibly a small amount of soybean oil
Finally the fries and most of the calories that come from these are from the oil that’s soaked into them during the deep frying process. This oil more often than not is either corn oil or soybean oil.
So it’s surprising that we even contemplate eating these meals on a regular basis and perhaps if we really knew how and what they were made from we wouldn’t stop at the nearest drive through next time we are hungry and can’t be bothered cooking.
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