{"id":77,"date":"2013-08-31T23:57:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T06:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toxichow.com\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2013-08-31T23:57:06","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T06:57:06","slug":"a-mcdonalds-experiment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/toxichow.com\/?page_id=77","title":{"rendered":"A McDonald&#8217;s Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is something you can try at home.\u00a0Try your experiment and buy a McDonald\u2019s hamburger, leave it out and see how fast or slow it decays.\u00a0Like the one in the photo above, can you tell the difference?\u00a0After 14 years, the McDonald&#8217;s burger on the left looks almost the same as the new one on the right.\u00a0It may be not such a good idea to eat this on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps, the meat patty has an excessive amount of sodium (salt), which is a natural preservative.\u00a0The bun (bread) does not have any mold, perhaps because it is not regular bread.\u00a0According to McDonald&#8217;s website, their hamburger buns consist of:\u00a0&#8220;Enriched flour (bleached wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid, enzymes), water, high fructose corn syrup, sugar, yeast, soybean oil and\/or partially hydrogenated soybean oil, contains 2% or less of the following: salt, calcium sulfate, calcium carbonate, wheat gluten, ammonium sulfate, ammonium chloride, dough conditioners (sodium stearoyl lactylate, datem, ascorbic acid, azodicarbonamide, mono- and diglycerides, ethoxylated monoglycerides, monocalcium phosphate, enzymes, guar gum, calcium peroxide, soy flour), calcium propionate and sodium propionate (preservatives), soy lecithin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are major incentives to center your diet on real foods as opposed to &#8220;food products,&#8221; the primary one being that real food is essential for optimal health. Real foods also taste delicious, and when bought from sustainable sources help to protect the environment.<\/p>\n<p>So how can you tell the difference? Real food almost always has the following characteristics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s grown<\/li>\n<li>Variable quality<\/li>\n<li>Spoils fast<\/li>\n<li>Requires preparation<\/li>\n<li>Vibrant colors, rich textures<\/li>\n<li>Authentically flavorful<\/li>\n<li>Strong connection to land and culture<\/li>\n<li>Whereas, processed &#8220;food products,&#8221; meanwhile, tend to have these traits:<\/li>\n<li>Produced, manufactured in a factory<\/li>\n<li>Neat, convenient, pre-packaged<\/li>\n<li>Always the same<\/li>\n<li>Stays &#8220;fresh&#8221; for years, if not forever<\/li>\n<li>Dull, bland<\/li>\n<li>Contains fillers, additives and preservatives<\/li>\n<li>Artificially flavorful<\/li>\n<li>No connection to land or culture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is something you can try at home.\u00a0Try your experiment and buy a McDonald\u2019s hamburger, leave it out and see&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":62,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-77","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toxichow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toxichow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toxichow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toxichow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toxichow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toxichow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/toxichow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions\/78"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toxichow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toxichow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}