Top 10 Most Common Ingredients in Fast Food

Order a meal in any fast-food restaurant, and you’ll likely walk away with a sandwich, fries and a drink. If you had to identify the ingredients of this meal, you might list beef (or chicken), lettuce, tomato, cheese, ketchup, bread, potatoes and soda. Not complicated, right? Wrong.

Burger and chicken joints don’t think of the building blocks of a menu item as ingredients. They think of them as components, which are made of ingredients. For example, McDonald’s famous Big Mac jingle — “two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun” — suggests the sandwich has seven components. Would you believe it has 67 ingredients?

HowStuffWorks.com

Here’s the top half of the top ten:

10. Citric Acid: The Most Common Preservative
9. High-fructose Corn Syrup: The Most Common Sweetener
8. Caramel Color: The Most Common Color Additive
7. Salt: The Most Common Flavor or Spice
6. Monosodium Glutamate: The Most Common Flavor Enhancer

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What Will Become of Me by Adrian Piper

The artist started to collect her hair and toenails since 1985, once she dies, her cremated remains will be part of this collection.

I’m thinking there’s no way she kept all of her nail clippings – I mean, sometimes those things just shoot off and disappear.

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What the UMC Could Learn From McDonald’s

The federal government may be using a lot of Monopoly money these days, but no matter how you slice it, $20 million is a lot of cash. That’s what the United Methodist Church is spending on its ReThink Church campaign over the next four years. That’s $13,699 per day, every day, until 2013. And if it works, it will be worth the money. Spending generously on marketing is a good investment if it’s done correctly. But that’s a big “if”.

Full post at www.wesleyreport.com (scroll down for the post)

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