The August 2009 issue of Consumer Reports magazine (now on news stands) takes a look at the fast food french fry.Many of the major fast food chains have gone "Trans Fat Free" with their french fries and Consumer Reports has confirmed that the fries at Burger King, McDonald's and Wendy's are, in fact, free of trans-fats.
(Note: McDonald's has NOT eliminated trans fat from their new Angus Third Pounder burgers... more on that tomorrow.)
Further, they have found that the fries taste about the same as they used to.
Consumer Reports ranked Wendy's and McDonald's fries as "very good" and Burger King's fries as "good."
One of their observations about the Burger King fries is that they "Taste more of oil than potato."
In the August issue of Consumer Reports and archived online.
3 comments:
Well they must be selling a trans fat-free version of the Angus burger in NYC...
I asked them about this and wrote about it in another post:
http://www.foodfacts.info/blog/2009/07/mcd-angus-third-pounder-taste-tested.html
McDonald's rep said, "NYC Department of Health regulation pertains only to artificial trans fat. The 2 grams of trans fat in the Angus Burger is attributed to the beef patty that contains naturally-occurring trans fat,a type of trans fat that would not be subject to the artificial trans fat regulation."
Burger King fries do tend to taste like grease, and don't deserve the rating of "good". They suck, and have sucked for years.
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