Obviously, you can tell from my previous post: I like food. This is not an appreciation for Mcdonalds post. This is a pledge to stop eating this crap and to stop feeding it to my son, who doesn't have a say yet in what I feed him, therefore I have been unintentionally putting his health (and my own) at risk. I know, I know - I sound like a psychopath on a rampage. Helicopter mum alert! To quote my food savvy/slighty cray cray Aunt Amanda: "There is a little bit of cancer in everything". Though that may be true, it wasn't until I started "investigating" what was really in these delicious "chicken" like nuggets that Noah can't seem to get enough of. First of all, if you like Mcdonalds and you wanna eat it.. Stop reading this post right now and go back to what you were doing. It is currently the law in NZ to have the ingredients of food available for any customer purchasing food for sale (I say currently because the TPPA could change this law). Thank god that this is the case because otherwise we wouldn't feed Noah almost anything from a supermarket here (excluding the obvious fruit,veg,meat). I looked up the NZ maccas ingredients out of curiosity and this is some of what I found: 1. I'm not an expert or anything but a chicken nugget does NOT need 18 ingredients. Included in these is Sodium Aluminium Phosphate otherwise called "raising agent 541". So.. if you think that doesn't sound like a food and It sounds more like something from a science lab; you'd be right. Aluminium impairs our body's ability to absorb calcium so that doesn't sound too ideal for a family that doesn't eat dairy products as we're already limiting our calcium intake. Why can't you just make a chicken nugget out of chicken....? Seems a bit suspicious to me. 2. Can you guess how many different types of sugar that the sweet and sour sauce contains? 1? 2? ... Try 9. NINE. Why do you need that much sugar in a sauce. No wonder Noah is acting like a crack addict after eating this. High fructose corn syrup? More like High indigestion, hyperactivity and diabetes! 3. This is the ingredients of my husbands favourite burger.. Why does a bun need more than 12 ingredients.. Last time I checked bread was made of flour, water, salt and yeast. Instead they've added all that plus an arm, a leg, a tree, old mcdonalds farm, a tyre and an african witch doctor. How are you gunna have this much shit in a burger? I can make one at home with actual beef mince, lettuce and some REAL buns. You know, the ones made of flour... not potassium iodate (found in their salt) and god knows what else. EW. 4. If you haven't heard of Aspartame its found in diet coke and other fizzy drinks, cereals, tea, bakery goods, jams, puree, chewing gums, chewable "vitamins" and thousands of other things. Theres a big hoorah about it in the states because lots of people want it banned. It makes up a lot of complaints to the FDA (The food and drug administration) who regulate food safety and a whole heap of other important stuff like pharmaceuticals ect. Its used as a flavour enhancer and is linked to heaps of nasty health problems including cancer, asthma, nausea, depressions, hyperactivity, vertigo, memory loss, blindness and seizures. What the F? Most relevant to me, its mainly known to cause migraine headaches which I have suffered from since I was little. I can't believe this stuff is actually allowed to be sold in a supermarket. It sounds more like something you'd poison your crazy wife with.
I'm not trying to start an anti-mcdonalds revolution or anything because aint nobody got time for that, I'm just publicly pledging (so you can shame me if I get caught slipping lol) to stop eating food with numbers and start trying to eat actual food. Following my recent health situation and having to have surgery, being sick four times this year already and constantly battling a cold I'm tired of this shit. My kids deserve better and so do we. Its scary to think that we've been eating this stuff for ages! I got the ingredients list of the NZ mcdonalds website - I swear I'm not making this shit up. If you'd like to use the website we use to cross check additives that are safe/suspicious/ones to absolutely avoid then head to Thetrustedtrolley.com.au . I started to check a few numbers when we found out about Noah's allergies because there are more than 100+ names for dairy products or products containing cows milk or derived from cows milk and this was before we added egg to the AVOID list. I'm not a doctor or anything close to but does anyone think that the food we now eat has contributed to the illnesses we now see starting to become a problem? More food allergies? Asthma? Eczema? It would be interesting to know more.
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