Ingredients inside a big mac
The final, successful, close to perfect recipe involved good-quality mince meat, and I did us all a favour and left out the sugars and salts from the original. In my relentless testing I've consumed litres of Big Mac sauce, both real and recreated.
What’s in This?: McDonald’s Big Mac
The upside? My version is pretty good. The downside? I need new jeans….
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What exactly is IN a Big Mac?
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For the Big Mac sauce, combine all the ingredients in a bowl, season with salt and chill until ready to use. Place each onto a square of baking paper and flatten to form into four x 15cm circles. Heat oil in a large frypan over high heat.
In 2 batches, cook beef patties for minutes each side until lightly charred and cooked through. Remove from heat and keep warm.
Repeat with remaining two patties. Carefully slice each burger bun into three acrossways, then lightly toast. To assemble the burgers, spread a little Big Mac sauce over the bottom base. Top with some chopped onion, shredded lettuce, slice of cheese, beef patty and some pickle slices.
Top with the middle bun layer, and spread with more Big Mac sauce, onion, lettuce, pickles, beef patty and then finish with more sauce. Top with burger lid to serve. Fat With Sugar In a Big Mac there is 5. The large fries will add a further mg and even the large Coke pops an extra 50mg in.
The ingredients The good news? The colours and preservatives added to the cheese give it the bright yellow hue and makes it last a lot longer in storage.
The love-it-or-hate-it pickle mostly contains ingredients that you would expect to find in a pickle such as cucumber plus vinegar and salt. There are also some preservatives and flavourings in there too. When it comes to the bun, the sugar and canola oil in the bun are probably the least favourable ingredients.
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Canola oil is highly processed, and offers little nutritional value. As well as teh ingredients you would expect mustard, oil, onion and spices there are plenty that you might not consider ideal for a healthy diet. There are a lot of numbers too 15 of them in fact ranging from artificial colourings to make the sauce look better, to preservative which keeps it safe in storage for longer.
The other issue is that it is quite rare to just purchase a Big Mac and be on your merry way. Most people would add a large Coke and fries to their order too.