McDonald's lettuce is sourced from various local and regional farms around the world, with specific origins depending on the country, but generally involves local growers in places like Australia (NSW, QLD, SA, VIC), the US (Salinas Valley), India (Blue Mountains, Nashik, Ooty), and the UK/Europe (UK, Spain, Holland), focusing on iceberg and cos varieties grown year-round through advanced techniques to meet quality and freshness standards.
A Lettuce Farmer, Dirk Giannini
Dirk's family farm offers a variety of lettuce from tender to spicy.
We work with our supplier to make sure we get the finest heads of fresh lettuce picked, chopped and delivered to our stores to serve our customers. The leaves towards the heart of the lettuce are the freshest, and those are exactly the ones we use for our famous chopped iceberg lettuce.
How McDonald's sourced iceberg lettuce from India.
Grown by farmers in NSW, QLD, SA and VIC*. Freshly cut, chilled and delivered to restaurants within 10 days of harvest. We like our fries and hash browns fluffy on the inside, crunchy on the outside. That's why we use potato varieties like Russet Burbank, Innovator and Russet Ranger.
The unhealthiest item at McDonald's is often cited as the Big Breakfast with Hotcakes, due to its massive calories, sodium, sugar, and saturated fat content (over 1300 calories and 122% of daily saturated fat). Other contenders for least healthy include large burgers like the Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese, large fries, shakes, and some breakfast wraps, packed with fat, salt, and refined carbs.
Bill Gates owns a farm that supplies potatoes to McDonald's, but not all McDonald's french fries come from his land: 100 Circles Farm: Gates' investment firm, Cascade Investments, owns this 14,500-acre farm in Washington state that supplies potatoes to McDonald's.
Vista Processed Foods Pvt Ltd is the supplier of the vegetable and chicken products for McDonald's.
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Premium salads paired with grilled chicken provide substantial nutrition while keeping calories in check. The Premium Southwest Salad with Grilled Chicken contains 330 calories and packs 33 grams of protein, plus the benefits of fresh vegetables and corn.
Currently, McDonald's has a market capitalization of $208.66 billion. Buying $1000 In MCD: If an investor had bought $1000 of MCD stock 10 years ago, it would be worth $3,019.74 today based on a price of $288.95 for MCD at the time of writing.
After reintroducing the cult-favorite item on July 10, restaurants quickly ran into a lettuce shortage due to massive demand. The chain had followed its usual supply projections, but Snack Wrap devotees turned out in droves, forcing the company to temporarily limit lettuce use in other menu items, like McChickens.
Lettuce (Iceberg)
Ingredients: 100% Iceberg Lettuce.
Despite having only one type of freshly cooked burger on the menu, McDonald's decision-makers felt that customers simply weren't demonstrating enough interest in fresh salads, as opposed to burgers and fries.
Other suppliers: McDonald's works with a network of about 20 food processing companies globally to provide its patties. Manufacturing process The beef comes from a variety of farms, primarily in the U.S., but also from other countries like Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.
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Chen (2014): Washing lettuce with tap water for 10 minutes can remove approximately 20-40% of pesticide residues. Using a 10 mg/L chlorine dioxide solution for 10 minutes is more effective, removing approximately 35-70% of residues, depending on the pesticide.
Dirk Giannini's Story 👉 Fourth generation farmer, lettuce supplier Dirk Giannini has been producing lettuce on his Salinas Valley farm for more than 14 years. Born and raised with farming in his blood, Dirk's appreciation for the land that provides the high quality McDonald's lettuce for our Salads is second to none.
There are hundreds of millions of chickens raised every year around the world to serve McDonald's menu items such as McNuggets and McChicken sandwiches. McDonald's chicken supply is mainly from local farms.
Globally, 99% of the fish sourced for Filet-O-Fish sandwiches come from sustainably managed, wild caught fisheries. (We're working to get that number up to 100%!) In the U.S., Filet-O-Fish sandwiches are made with 100% wild-caught Alaska Pollock that's also always sustainably sourced.
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Warren Buffett, one of the richest men on earth, is famously frugal, especially when it comes to breakfast. Despite managing over $347 billion in cash through Berkshire Hathaway, he often grabs a simple McDonald's meal, paying just a few dollars.