What’s in McDonald’s Food

For delicious grass-raised beef New Zealand is the perfect combo. An ideal climate, lush pastures and innovative farming produces enough beef for Macca’s in New Zealand and around the world. Our patties are 100% quality beef, and all that’s added is a dash salt and pepper when cooked.

Our apples are taken from New Zealand’s fruit bowl: Hawke's Bay. For our Apple Pies, we source Granny Smith apples - tart and juicy. For the fruit bags, we use Royal Gala apples - crisp and sweet. All are handpicked and quality checked before being baked or bagged.

When it comes to free range, the Macca’s egg came first. In 2015, we became the first and largest New Zealand restaurant chain to make the move to serving only free range eggs in our restaurants. Otaika Valley in Whangarei, and Zeagold in Waikouaiti supply whole 100% free range eggs to every McDonald’s in the country. Fair to say we’ve cracked it.

ARYZTA in Wairau Valley isn’t your standard local bakery, but 1.9 million buns a week isn’t your standard baker’s dozen. The recipe remains pretty traditional though. Flour milled in Ōtāhuhu is mixed with water, and yeast from Hamilton. It’s proofed, kneaded, glazed, baked and sliced ready to be toasted at the restaurant. Bun appétit.

The good people of Eltham in Taranaki take Fonterra milk and turn it into enough cheese for three billion Macca’s burgers every year, here and abroad. The colour comes from Achiote tree seeds and paprika, naturally.

Our coffee roast was specially designed for the Kiwi coffee palate. Our Rainforest Alliance Certified Arabica beans are roasted in Auckland for subtly sweet floral and berry notes.

We have Pukekohe’s perfect horticultural climate to thank for all our fresh juicy tomatoes. They’re vine ripened in glass houses to protect them from frost, and keep them growing happily all year round.

Since we opened our first New Zealand restaurant in Porirua in 1976 we’ve been using only locally grown onions, sourced by GSF Fresh. from North Waikato and Franklin. As our menu has grown, so have our suppliers, now unearthing enough red and brown onions to supply not just us but the Aussies as well.