The true from the false. Are McDonald’s fries vegetarian?

Do McDonald’s fries contain meat? An American influencer, Jordan Howlett, cast doubt on the TikTok network by saying this: “McDonald’s cooks its fries in vegetable oil mixed with beef flavoring. That’s why their fries are so tasty and different from others. But that’s probably bad news for vegetarians.”

The publication has been viewed more than a million times and in the United States, it has even reacted to the animal rights association, Peta. On social networks, she says she is angry that even McDonald’s fries are not vegetarian.

McDonald’s France, however, ensures that there is no beef fat in the manufacture or cooking of their fries. In France, fries are cooked twice. Once at the factory, before being frozen, then another time to defrost them in the fast food kitchens. And each time it’s “sunflower oil or rapeseed oil” which is used, the firm told franceinfo. “We do not add any artificial flavoring agents, flavorings or additives of animal origin”, also provides McDonald’s France.

In the United States, the taste of beef reproduced from “derivatives of wheat and milk”

McDonald’s fries in New York don’t taste the same as in Paris. And on its website, the brand indicates that in the United States. She cooks her fries in oil with natural beef flavor. However, there is no real beef in it. The taste of beef is reproduced from “derived from wheat and milk”. And as for the authentic Belgian fries, on the other hand, they are traditionally well cooked in beef fat.