McDonald’s: King of Fast Food
So when you think of fast food chains, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? If one of them isn’t McDonald’s, I’d be very surprised. According to an article done by Carmen Ang from the Visual Capitalist, McDonald’s is considered to be the top ranked fast food place in the U.S, raking in about $40.41 billion in sales back in 2019, with second highest ranking, Starbucks at just $21.55 billion. In this blog post, I will conduct an in depth analysis on McDonald’s, specifically their food and what makes them the powerhouse of a fast food chain that they are known today.
Let’s start with their trademark meal, the Big Mac meal, with 1080 calories in total from the website, it contains 65g of total sugar and 1325mg of sodium. According to the Dietary Reference Intake, if you were to eat this meal you would have already eaten double the amount of sugar needed (triple, if you are a woman), and already going over half the required sodium intake. If we were to go back to my previous post about how fast food addiction works, and the effects sugar can have on the rats during the experiment, you then can put together one of the many ways McDonald’s is able to keep their customers into coming back for more.
Citations
Ang, C. (2020, September 28 ). Ranked: The 50 most popular fast food chains in America. Retrieved March 15, 2021, from https://www.visualcapitalist.com/top-50-fast-food-chains-ranked/
National Institutes of Health (1994). Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI). Retrieved March 15, 2021, from https://ods.od.nih.gov/HealthInformation/Dietary_Reference_Intakes.aspx
