You're right about the bun... They put more sugar in it than usual. The meat isn't some cut of lean meat either. It's injected with fillers and they add extra salts to make you thirsty.
The thirst and hunger dichotomy is like their brainchild. The salt makes you thirsty, the drink's sugars make you more hungry (that's why just getting water in some fast food places is made painful to do... it's on purpose).
Then there is all the damn fats that just make the calorie intake go sky-high.
I can go to one of these places and easily put down 1,000Kcal or more in one setting with a regular burger and their fries. Flick on the grill though and make your own double cheese burger and bake some fries in the oven... It's pretty much half of that. <-- That's how you damn well know they are just fucking with the food and fucking it hard.
maybe in most places but McDonald's only 250 calories in their burger and buns , only 1/5 ounce sugar, half as in yogurt, and only 510mg salt so 2/3 salt in cheese in other words 1/3 less salt than cheese.
For the same reason the "healthy" foods are: it's dead. Healthy is a condition, not a property.
As to why it's unhealthful: it's not. It's loaded with fat, calories, protein, and carbohydrates; the only people who call that "bad" are idiots who've never known hunger. It's much easier in the modern West (if you're not desperately poor) to go overboard than to fall short, but the bad part there isn't in the food, but the eater.
Point that out to people, however, and you get the "It's processed" argument. Ask them what specific process it's been subjected to that's so negatively affected it, and once again, you'll get nothing. Fun fact: "processed" is a label attached to foods that have gone such corrupting procedures as "being washed". Let them get by without THAT for a while, and see how their opinions change.
Why a burger can be unhealthy is all about where you get it from (if it's fast food). But if you make it at home, it's all about the toppings & what condiments you put on it. What bread you use too, but there's low carb buns if you're worried (or just switch it with lettuce if you want). Condiments like ketchup, BBQ, honey mustard, etc. all have sugar in them, but there's ways around it by getting a zero sugar or no added sugar brand. I would say something about pickle chips, but I won't because I respect them too much. Grilled onions, tomato slices, and lettuce is always good on a burger regardless. I like a fast food burger once in a while but at home can be so much better sometimes since I can put as much lettuce and pickles or grilled onions I want on it.
It's only unhealthy if you make it a part of your steady diet. But then so are a lot of other foods. Let's face it, fast food has taken over our lives when it started to take 2 incomes to make a decent living. With both parents working, fast food was a regular meal for the family.
Lots of sugar, espacially in the sauces, Ketchup, BBQ sauce, ... but also in the bun.
Also you maybe got one or two slices of pickles, one tomatoslice, one leaf of salad on a decent burger, but on the other hand, two huge fatty patties, cheese, sauces, bun, ... so the "healthy plant stuff" is heavily under represented.
Also you usually get fries with Ketchup (sugar) and mayo (fat) with your burger, alongside a coke (also lots of sugar) and maybe some other stuff like Nuggets.
Overall its lots of calories, Sugar fat and carbs and little to no vitamins.
most places true, fatty, but McDonald's only 9 grams fat, 1/3 ounce not "fatty". only a bit of ketchup so total sugar only 1/5 ounce not "lots sugar" unless customers add ketchup, total including bun. for vitamins the bun has b vitamin like any bread, necessary protien: some wheat protein called gluten, it is PROTEIN not evil, except if allergic. beef obviously good source of protein like ham or shrimp.
Burgers that are used are typically fattier cuts of beef. They just hold flavor in better, cook better, and they're cheaper to mass produce. Quantity over quality. Plus you salt the fuck out of it to preserve it.
Condiments can be bad. Mustard is actually healthy. Ketchup is sugary af. Mayo is fatty as fuck.
no way, white bread is not poison. just a bit less than whole wheat. mcdonalds total is 1/5ounce sugar, far from "sugary". sodium is just 510 mg, so less than cheese. pickles are not "good" THEY have high sodium but only a bit pickle with burger.
it's the quality of meat they use in their burger, it's not the type of meat itself, it's also the quality of bread and the content within their dressing and sauces and spices and salts and the quality and type of cheese. Also you should not mix fat and sugar in the same meal, and it's not good to consume high calories in a single meal.
Bin, too much sugar, too salty, not a good quality - of meat too - all the medicaments that are given to the animals so that they do not get sick while standing in their fecels and urine or wounds. The stress. That is all in the meat. And of course the fat - fat makes taste!
most places true but McDonald's wins, sugar, half of sugar in yogurt, sodium 2/3 sodium in cheese. in one study McDonald's meat was best quality from all other restaurants in city. a bit more protein, a bit less fat and sodium.
Biggest problem, from my POV, that is enough food for TWO people. Not always WHAT you eat but how much and how often the same kind of diet. The bread is a lot of starch, and carbohydrates. I go to In-and-out- burger and get their 'protein burger, and instead of the buns... it is wrapped in lettuce, and the burger is all vegetables, lettuce, tomato, onion and some good 'dressing' not mayonnaise etc
but a quarter pounder, is only 4 ounces! not even daily amount for one person! far from "two people" bread true is 50% carbs but body needs carbs. McDonald's burger and bun provide ten 10% of daily requirements of carbs. "need =required" but wrapped in lettuce lacks the recommended carbs.
Any scratch made Pizza or Burger will be healthier than one bought from a chain, If you don't believe me just look up the ingredients listed for the Pizza or Burger on the chains websites, then look up the recipes for doing them at home!
@strateguy632 The concern over the fat content is overblown, I've never stressed about it, I buy my ground beef (it's called minced beef in the UK) straight from my local butchers because of the way they produce it, and you need a decent amount of fat in the mix as that is where the base flavour comes from.
actually dietician recommend cheese, due to concentrated protein even more than beef. it is healthy if not overdue it. in the cheese burger only a bit of cheese, one slice is minor. about fat McDonald's wins, 1/3 ounce could have NINE of their burgers before reaching daily fat limit. but other places are usually high fat.
@strateguy632 the cardiologist would disagree with the dietician. a slice of cheese has 3-6 grams of sat fat. that's out of 20 for a healthy woman and 30 for a healthy man, or out of ten for a heart patient.
The sodium can be over 10% of a daily limit in that slice alone.
A burger isn't inherently unhealthy. Buy meat at the store. Make sure it's mostly meat and not mostly fat. Make burgers with it. They are pretty healthy. Most burgers bought don't have a high meat content as it costs more.
@strateguy632 ground beef is usually a lower grade, less choice cuts, has higher saturated fats, and due to the processing through the grinder makes it is more susceptible to bacterial contamination.
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