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There are 24 questions about “Salad” in the “What's in the food?” topic.
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- 1. Why are the onions in your bugers not standardised? Sometimes I get big bits and sometimes small
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Firstly McDonald's apologises unreservedly for the late reply to your question. There were some technical problems which caused some questions to slip through.
Regarding your question; Thanks for asking. Depending on the burger that you have purchased, the onions' sizes will differ slightly. The onions that you find in a Hamburger or Cheeseburger are finely chopped, whereas a Quarter Pounder and some of the promotional sandwiches are made with thick-cut onions.
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 2. how do you use plants and how do you grow it
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McDonald's ingredients come from many plants. For example, the flour in the buns comes from wheat grown specifically for baking, and the potato plants are grown to produce potatoes which are sliced into French Fries. Iceberg lettuce is grown, cut and put into the sandwiches and salads. The list is very extensive, covering tomatoes, cucumber, apples, grapes, vegetable oil and much more. All the plants are grown as crops by specialist farmers and growers, in the UK and abroad. The plants start from seeds planted in the ground, cultivated in soil with nutrients, water and sunlight, to then grow and be harvested either as a plant or as a seed or fruit crop.
(September 2007)
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 3. Do you use any Dutch companies for your Iceberg Lettuce, Cucumbers and Tomatoes?
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McDonald's uses lettuce grown in the UK from May to October, and then sourced from Spain for the winter months. Cucumbers and tomatoes are sourced from Holland, depending upon availability.
(September 2007)
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 4. Is it true that due to the dressing on your salads, they contain more fat than your fries?
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No. All the new salad dressings are low fat. A full list of the nutritional breakdowns of all menu items is available in the ‘Our Food’ booklet, which is available for download in the 'Eat Smart' section of www.mcdonalds.co.uk under 'Ingredients list'.
DECEMBER '07 UPDATE: McDonald's French Fries are now fully accredited by the Vegetarian Society. (December 2007)
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 5. What are the nutritional details (including calories, protein, vitamins and minerals) of the salads offered at McDonald's?
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All McDonald's food, ingredients and nutritional information are available online in the 'Nutrition Counter' which is in the 'Eat Smart' section of www.mcdonalds.co.uk. Also, there is a comprehensive list of nutritional and allergen information available at www.mcdonaldsmenu.info.
(September 2007)
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 6. Where are the vegetables used in McDonalds products primarily grown?
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The lettuce and salad that McDonald's use in its products is supplied by growers in the UK during the spring and summer. In winter they come from Spain. The carrots are from UK growers for 11 months of the year, and from France for one month of the year. McDonald's UK uses Russet Burbank, Pentland Dell and Shepody potatoes in the French Fries, with most of them coming from the UK.
(July 2007)
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 7. how many calories and how much saturated in a chicken cesaer salad?
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There are 210 Kcals in the Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad. There is also 8g of fat, of which 4g are saturated. In the Crispy Chicken Caesar Salad there are 305 Kcals, with 14g of fat, of which 4g are saturated. If you would like to see a full nutritional breakdown of all McDonald's products, please visit the ‘Nutritional Counter’ which is in the ‘Eat Smart’ section of www.mcdonalds.co.uk.
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 8. Do you add salt to your salads
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McDonald's does not add salt to any of its salads. However, there is salt in some of the ingredients that constitute the salad. These include Italian cheese, grilled chicken and croutons. There is also a varying amount of salt in all of the Newman's Own salad dressings that customers can chose to have with the salads. You can find a full list of ingredients for all the salads and any other McDonald’s menu item in the ‘Ingredients List’ available in the ‘Eat Smart’ section of www.mcdonalds.co.uk.
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 9. where does the lettuce in your salads come from?
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McDonald's lettuces are supplied by growers in the UK in spring and summer, while they are in season. In winter, the lettuces come from Spain.
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 10. What are the ingredients in your salad dressings and sauses? I've tried looking on your inefficient website and failed to find this.
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Sorry that your having trouble navigating around the www.mcdonalds.co.uk site. You need to click on ‘Eat Smart’ and then on ‘Ingredients List’. The ingredients for the Low Fat Newman's Own Light Caesar Dressing are as follows: Water, natural yoghurt, white wine vinegar, sugar, stabiliser (contains rice starch, whey protein concentrate, E415 xanthan gum, E440 pectin, E412 guar gum, E401 sodium alginate), salt, egg yolk, soya bean oil, whey protein concentrate (contains lactose), garlic, dried medium fat hard cheese (milk, salt, acidity regulator (E331 sodium citrate), vegetarian rennet, lysozyme), dehydrated onion, worcester sauce (malt vinegar, molasses, water, onion, salt, tamarinds, spices, garlic, lemon juice), E330 citric acid, black pepper and stabiliser (E415 xanthan gum).
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 11. Why do your salads all have meat in them?
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The Garden Side Salad doesn’t contain any meat. You can also ask for the other salads to be prepared without the meat products.
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 12. this is my second question once i ordered for a chicken salad and there were pieces of bacon in it why? I have not bought salad since.
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McDonald’s serves two different types of salad – the Caesar Salad and also the Ranch Salad. The Ranch Salad contains pieces of bacon but the Ceasar salad does not. If you are not happy with what you’ve ordered, or receive the wrong item, you should either talk to the counter staff or the restaurant manager straight away
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 13. What is your view to suggestions that your salad's contain more calories and are not a health option compared to, say, a hamburger?
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The calorific value of a salad from McDonald’s Salads Plus menu will vary depending on which salad you choose, and whether you add dressing or not. It is not appropriate to compare a salad with a Hamburger, the smallest of McDonald’s sandwiches with approximately 250 Kcal, while the more substantial Big Mac has about 495 Kcal. To give you an average example, a Grilled Chicken Ranch Salad has approximately 250 calories per portion without dressing, and 320 Kcal when served with Low Fat Newman's Own Ranch Dressing. The Crispy Chicken version of the same salad typically has 350 Kcal without dressing, and 420 Kcal with dressing. A full list of the nutritional breakdowns, including calorific contents, of all the salads and dressings is available online in 'Eat Smart' section of www.mcdonalds.co.uk under the 'Nutrition Counter', or on the back of the tray liners in the restaurants.
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 14. how much fat is in your salads?
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McDonald’s has an extensive range of salads to suite all tastes and dietary requirements. The Garden Side Salad without dressing has approximately 0.1g of fat and the Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad without dressing and croutons typically has 8g of fat. All McDonald’s food, ingredients and nutritional information are available online in 'Eat Smart' section of www.mcdonalds.co.uk under the 'Nutrition Counter'.
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What are these? Delicious Digg Reddit Facebook StumbleUpon - 15. Is it true that your salad dressings are fattier than your burgers.
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No, this is not true. The highest fat content in any of McDonald’s Low Fat Newman’s Own Dressings is 2g. The lowest fat content of any burger is 8g (Hamburger). And even if you were to have the Crispy Chicken Ranch Salad with dressing and croutons, it would still contain 3g less fat than a Big Mac.
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