Fast food is an enterprise that has become far different over the years, especially since the advent of synthetic and processed “food products.”
One of the most popular items at most fast food restaurants is the cheeseburger, a staple that typically includes a burger patty, lettuce, tomatoes, pickles, onions and a slice or two (or more) of cheese, or at least what most people think is real cheese.
Recently, the website Delish decided to put on its Consumer Reports style hat and look into which fast food restaurants use real cheese and which use what they have dubbed to be likely fake approximations of real cheese.
The results were published to the company’s website and call into question the practices of some of America’s most popular fast food restaurants.
Three Chains That Use Real Cheese
The website stated that Chic-Fil-A, Wendy’s and Chipotle are among the fast food or fast casual chains currently using real cheese in their recipes. Chipotle is known to use pasture-raised cheese in its shredded cheese and queso buffet-style food ingredients for the construction of its burritos and burrito bowls.
There has been concern about additives to the former two fast food companies as well as their decision to serve products containing GMOs (genetically modified organisms) and from animals fed GMOs. Chipotle has also been rebuked by the clean food movement for the recent addition of canola oil to its menu.
Six Chains Outed For “Fake Cheese,” Including McDonald’s And Burger King
McDonald’s was the first chain called out for alleged fake cheese use by the report. McDonald’s is using cheese “so processed,” it’s not even considered cheese by the FDA, Delish wrote.
The McDonald’s website says its burgers use cheese that called “pasteurized process cheese,” which includes ingredients like soy lecithin, enzymes, citric acid, sodium citrate and more. Products dubbed “pasteurized process cheese” must contain only 51% real cheese.
Burger King reportedly uses “cheese product” on its burgers, the report added. Bojangles, another United States fast food chain, also uses “cheese product” on its noodles and cheese menu item.
Other fast food companies using processed cheese that typically does not meet FDA standards to be called real cheese are Sonic, Dairy Queen, and Tim Hortons.
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