Maybe we shouldn’t eat fast food every day, but when you have a craving for a cheeseburger where should you go? In commercials, fast food restaurants advertise the juiciness of the burger, the all-around tastiness of their sandwich, and its price (Of course, they also throw in how the hours that they serve breakfast!). Very few fast food resturants actually try to market themselves as healthy establishments. While resturants do provide nutritional information about their products, do you actually know what the Burger King down the street is serving? Here is a little comparison between McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King, and homemade quarter-pound cheeseburgers.
Burger King is the restaurant leader in calories. It has 591.1, barely topping Wendy’s by one calorie. McDonald’s has the fewest, with only 520. Other facts stack up as follows:
We can conclude that McDonald’s has the healthiest burger of the restaurants being compared here. Now, I set out to make a healthier burger.
Compare my burger (top) with McDonald’s (bottom):
You might think mine doesn’t look as fresh and plump as McDonald’s. But it’s also not sporting the grill marks and juiciness that comes when fast food restaurants leave the burgers half-cooked for their flashy ads. Since I didn’t want my dad to get sick, I cooked my burger thoroughly. Also, since I didn’t want to waste food, I didn’t look for the perfect bun. I also squirted on ketchup and mustard, rather than painting it on, as a food photographer might do to his supemodel burger. I don’t know how to Photoshop, so this isn’t digitally altered in any way.
And now compare the nutritional value of the burger that I made with a burger that McDonald’s made.
Looking at calories, my burger has 101 less than McDonald’s, and I also beat McDonald’s on fat, though their burger offers more protein. As far as taste, you be the judge. I’m taking orders . . . but you’ll have to pay postage!