Are Burger King fries real potatoes?

Burger King's fries are made from real potatoes, but they utilize potato starch, rice flour, and a few other choice ingredients to boost the crunch factor and seasoning. While they do get nice and crispy outside and stay pillowy-soft inside, what they're missing is flavor.
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What is Burger King french fries made of?

Burger King: Potatoes, Soybean Oil or Canola and Palm Oil, Modified Potato Starch, Rice Flour, Potato Dextrin, Salt, Leavening (Disodium Dihydrogen Pyrophosphate, Sodium Bicarbonate), Dextrose, Xanthan Gum, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate added to preserve natural color.
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Does Burger King use real potatoes for their French fries?

The new fries are made with a process in which fresh-cut potatoes are sprayed with a potato-based coating before they are frozen and shipped to Burger King restaurants where they are cooked, as before, in vegetable oil.
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What do Burger King fry their fries in?

The fries are cooked in trans fat-free vegetable oil and do not contain animal products, Burger King said. On December 16 Burger King is promoting its new fries by giving away $1 “value” portions for free.
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Are McDonald's fries real potatoes?

Some people believe that the perfectly straight fries are made using molds and fake potato goop. But since the fries are made with real potatoes, they are cut with a real knife. After the potatoes are skinned and washed, they are shot through a series of blades that cut them into French fries.
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Who makes Burger King fries?

A licensed products company, Broad Street Licensing Group, and its manufacturing partner, the Inventure Group, introduced the first products in the fall of that year: flavored potato crisps in two flavors, flame-broiled burger and French fries with ketchup.
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Are Wendy's fries real potatoes?

According to the company, the new fries are natural-cut, skin-on and made with real potatoes. They also allegedly hold up to dipping in sauce or even a Frosty and come with a Hot & Crispy Guarantee, which means Wendy's will replace them if they are in fact, not hot and crispy.
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Where does Burger King get their potatoes?

“Thompson Family Farm's potatoes are used by McCain to produce a number of top quality products, including Burger King french fries,†says John Sutton, who oversees supplier diversity at Restaurant Services Inc., the purchasing cooperative for the U.S. Burger King System.
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Are fast food fries fake?

Turns out, there are real spuds in the fries. As for that 17 number, that's a myth. There are really 19 ingredients.
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Are BK fries vegan?

Therefore, from a health standpoint, it's best paired with another item. Unlike fries from many other fast-food chains, the classic fries from Burger King are vegan. Note that from a health standpoint, just one serving contributes a lot of sodium, fat, and calories.
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Are Burger King fries fried separately?

Fryers: We have separate fryer vats for different products but they share an oil filtration system which creates a risk of cross- contact when the oil passes through the filter.
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Are Burger King fries cooked separately?

The French fries will no longer be cooked in a separate fryer, but rather in the same fryer as hash browns. Since the hash browns contain wheat flour, there is an increased risk for the French fries to come in contact with wheat, and therefore are not safe to eat for people with celiac disease.
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Does Burger King add sugar to their fries?

Burger King offers french fries in four sizes: value, small, medium and large. The burger chain doesn't add sugar to its fries, so a serving of any size contains 0 grams of added sugar.
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Does Burger King have good fries?

After much debate, Burger King wins the battle with the crispiest, tastiest fries of the bunch. McDonald's came in a close second, followed by Chick-fil-A and Wendy's.
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Are Burger King fries cooked in beef fat?

What's in a French fry? For one thing, too much saturated fat, says a coalition of health groups that has appealed to the presidents of McDonald's, Burger King and other fast-food restaurants that fry potatoes in shortening high in beef fat.
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Are Mcdonalds fries vegan?

Unfortunately NOT Vegan at McDonald's (in the US):

French Fries (contain “Natural Beef Flavor [Wheat and Milk Derivatives]” and are fried in beef fat) Hash Browns (contain milk and fried in beef fat) Donut Sticks (contain milk in sticks and sauce)
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Which fast food has the healthiest fries?

An essential daily guide to achieving the good life
  • Chick-Fil-A Waffle Potato Fries. ...
  • Wendy's Natural-Cut Fries. ...
  • Jack In The Box French Fries. ...
  • KFC Seasoned Potato Wedges. ...
  • Sonic Natural Cut Fries. ...
  • Arby's Curly Fries (*Snack Size) ...
  • Burger King French Fries (*Value Size) ...
  • McDonald's World Famous Fries.
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What kind of potato does Burger King use?

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Burger King's fries are made from real potatoes, but they utilize potato starch, rice flour, and a few other choice ingredients to boost the crunch factor and seasoning.
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Is there plastic in McDonald's fries?

McDonald's fries are never molded, or “formed,” into the thin strips consumers see, according to Gibson. Instead, they're machine-sliced, blanched to remove their natural sugars and prevent discoloration, then coated in a “textural solution” to even out the look.
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What's in McDonald's fries?

French Fries

Ingredients: Potatoes, Vegetable Oil (canola Oil, Corn Oil, Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Natural Beef Flavor [wheat And Milk Derivatives]*), Dextrose, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate (maintain Color), Salt. *natural Beef Flavor Contains Hydrolyzed Wheat And Hydrolyzed Milk As Starting Ingredients.
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What is a natural cut fries?

So instead of going the more expensive Five Guys route of making their fries fresh and in-house, Wendy's settled for "natural cut." What this means is that inside the processing plant, the potatoes skip the step of getting steamed at such a high temperature that the skins burst off.
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What ingredients are in Chick fil A fries?

Potatoes, vegetable oil [canola oil, palm oil], disodium dihydrogen pyrophosphate [to promote color retention], dextrose, fully refined high oleic canola oil,TBHQ and citric acid added to preserve freshness and Dimethylopolysiloxane added as an anti-foaming agent.
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What is worse Burger King or Mcdonalds?

Burger King Wins

With 720 milligrams of sodium, it's also a better choice when it comes to sodium content. The Burger King cheeseburger contains more protein than McDonald's, as well, with 22 grams, which is almost half of the 46 grams of protein women need each day and 40 percent of the 56 grams men require every day.
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Who makes the best fries in the world?

America's 10 Best French Fries
  • Philadelphia The Continental, Szechuan Shoestring Fries. ...
  • West Mifflin, Penn. ...
  • Denver Steuben's, Gravy Cheese Fries. ...
  • Austin Hyde Park Bar & Grill, Hyde Park Fries. ...
  • San Francisco AT&T Park, Gilroy Garlic Fries. ...
  • Portland, Ore. ...
  • Seattle Luc, Soufflé Potato Crisps.
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Are Burger King fries battered?

Well, it's more like Burger King French Fries are crispy because they are battered with a mix containing rice flour and potato starch among other ingredients. The resulting crust is more consistently crispy than most other fast food fries but also has a grainy surface texture and aren't as potato-y as other fries.
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