Meats

This is untrue. In fact, McDonald’s is the largest purchaser of American beef in the U.S., and we do not buy beef from South America. In order to keep up with our requirements for lean beef, we do import a very small percentage of beef from suppliers in Australia and New Zealand, who are required to meet the exact same high quality and safety standards as our U.S. suppliers.

Our beef patties are frozen instantly, after the beef has been ground, to make sure the very best quality and flavor is preserved. They are then transported in sealed, refrigerated trucks. To learn more, watch our beef video at Meet Our Suppliers.

McDonald’s beef comes from cattle corn-fed in the U.S. Additionally, in order to keep up with demand, a small percentage of grass-fed beef is imported from Australia and New Zealand.

At McDonald’s, because we serve so many people each day, we are able to buy in bulk and then pass along the value to you. This enables us to offer our customers the best prices on the freshest, highest quality products.

Our beef patties are flash frozen and transported to restaurant locations in refrigerated trucks to ensure food safety and quality. The patties are then fully cooked for the first time at the restaurant. Take a look at how we make the Big Mac.

We do. All of our chicken comes from our trusted USDA-inspected suppliers in the U.S., like Tyson Foods and Keystone Foods. Our beef and pork products also come from trusted USDA-inspected suppliers, such as Lopez Foods. In order to keep up with demand, a small percentage of our 100% pure beef is imported from USDA-inspected suppliers in Australia and New Zealand.

Despite all those myths out there, none of our meat is fake! McDonald’s uses only 100% USDA-inspected beef from real beef cattle to make our burger patties. Our chicken is 100% USDA-inspected real chicken, supplied by industry leaders like Tyson Foods and Keystone Foods, and the same high standards apply to our 100% pork.

Our burger patties are just 100% pure beef. Nothing is added – no binders or fillers. The restaurants use a double-sided grill called a “clamshell” to grill the patties, and no extra fat is added.

We don’t use any binding ingredients. Our burger patties are made from 100% pure beef, with no binders or fillers.

Our suppliers feed all chickens a diet that includes natural grains, such as corn and soybeans.

Chicken McNuggets are made with white meat, lightly coated in a tempura batter to ensure that they are crispy on the outside, and juicy and tender in the inside. They are cooked in a Canola oil blend, which provides 0 grams of trans fat per serving.

Our Chicken McNuggets are made from carefully deboned chicken breast meat that is formed into the famous “bell, ball, bone or boot” shape, and then coated in a specially seasoned tempura batter. The Chicken Selects Premium Breast Strips are made with marinated strips of carefully deboned whole chicken breast meat that is battered and breaded.

The only meat used in McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets is chicken breast meat. The white meat is minced before being shaped into nuggets, and then coated with a specially seasoned batter at our trusted suppliers, such as Keystone Foods. You may also like to try the Chicken Selects Premium Breast Strips which are made from white meat chicken which has not been minced. To find out more about Keystone Foods, read their story here.

The McRib is made from pork! It consists of a pork patty on a bun, with sauce, pickle slices and slivered onions.

Once caught, fish is immediately inspected, skinned, deboned, cut into filets and quick frozen into blocks on board the ship. Then, the blocks are cut into square portions and inspected again before being breaded, packed frozen and sealed for shipment to our U.S. restaurants.

We use fresh white fish such as Pollock and Hoki from the cold, deep waters of the Pacific Ocean, Bering, Baltic and North Seas. Once caught, the fish is filleted, deboned and frozen on board the ship to assure quality.