When eating french fries at McDonald’s, you can expect a consistent taste, texture and quality. Each fry turns out to be a golden color, has a crispy outer shell and is soft on the inside. The consumer has four size choices when purchasing french fries: kids, small, medium and large. Nutrition facts will of course be based on the amount of fries, but just to get an idea, we will look at the small sized fry.
Small French Fries
230 Calories
100 Calories from fat
2g Protein
11g Fat
30g Carbs
130 mg Sodium
1.5g Saturated Fat
0g Trans Fat
0mg Cholesterol
2g Dietary Fiber
0g Sugar
10mg Calcium
0.5mg Iron
18mg Vitamin C
Ingredients: Potatoes, Vegetable Oil(Canola Oil, Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Natural Beef Flavor, Citric Acid), Dextrose, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Salt.
Prepared in Vegetable Oil (Canola Oil, Corn Oil, Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil) with TBHQ and Citric Acid to preserve freshness of the oil and Dimethylpolysiloxane to reduce oil splattering when cooking.
Contains: Wheat and Milk
(Taken from mcdonalds.com)
The social impact of the consumption aspect would be the consumer price of the product. The small fry is $1.29, the medium fry is $1.59 and the large fry is $1.79. These are fast food prices, so they are relatively cheap. For the quantity you get, this seems to be a reasonable price.
Consumption is also very localized when it comes to McDonalds. According to Manisha Tripathy Pandey’s academic journal, “McDonalds in India is another example of how globalization has become localized. Beef and pork burgers are not sold in India for obvious reasons.” (Pandey, 257) This is showing that based on culture, different food options are going to be available. McDonald’s is a worldwide company and therefore has to have multiple food choices depending on the country in which their restaurant is in.