Health
Health Facts
McDonald`s serves a range of high-quality foods that can fit into a balanced diet. The links below will take you to tools and information to help you plan your choices. McDonald`s New York City and Philadelphia metro area restaurants are delivering our world-famous French fries with 0 grams trans fat per labeled serving and reduced saturated fats - and have been since the late 2006 rollout of our Canola Oil Blend. Thousands of Americans have already enjoyed the 0 grams trans fat fries and confirmed they have the same great taste customers have come to expect from McDonald`s. McDonald`s believes that accurate and accessible health fact information helps our customers make menu choices to maintain balanced, active lifestyles. It`s why we have provided this information for more than 30 years.
We provide a health fact analysis of our menu items to help you balance your McDonald`s meal with other foods you eat. Our goal is to provide you with the information you need to make sensible decisions about balance, variety and moderation in your diet. Our health facts were presented to help you plan your daily nutritional values. Along with a well-balanced diet, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend that children get at least 60 minutes of moderate physical activity, including active play, most days of the week. Unfortunately, many children fall short of this goal. At McDonald`s, we strive to make our PlayPlaces a fun, safe environment for active play such as climbing, jumping, crawling, and running.
Kids need a variety of vitamins and minerals every day to help them grow strong, play long, and learn better in school. Foods in McDonald`s Happy Meals and Mighty Kids Meals can help supply many of these important nutrients. Calcium helps form and maintain strong bones and teeth, and it aids in blood clotting, muscle movement, and nerve function. Foods that provide calcium include milk, cheese, some leafy green vegetables, and fortified fruit juice. Iron is important for healthy red blood cells, which carry oxygen in the blood. Foods that provide iron include beef, chicken, eggs, dried beans, nuts, green leafy vegetables, and whole-grain or enriched breads and cereals. Vitamin A is important for vision and healthy skin. Foods that provide vitamin A include eggs, milk, dark green and deep yellow fruits and vegetables. Vitamin C is necessary for wound healing, healthy teeth and gums, and it helps the body use iron from foods. Foods that provide vitamin C include citrus fruits, tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, and leafy greens.
McDonald`s Franchise
McDonald`s has always been a franchising business and has relied on its franchisees, our Owner/Operators, to play a major role in the System`s success. McDonald`s remains committed to franchising as a predominant way of doing business. We are actively seeking highly qualified business people to join our System as Owner/Operators. Owning a McDonald`s restaurant is a tremendous opportunity. We are seeking individuals with significant business experience who have successfully owned or managed multiple business units or have led multiple departments and who have significant financial resources. We are a family of over 2400 Owner/Operators passionate about satisfying our customers, growing our business, making money and having fun.
Salads
Salad is a light meal - or, more commonly a part of a larger meal, such as an appetizer - consisting of mixed vegetables (usually including at least one leaf vegetable) or fruit, often with a dressing or sauce, occasionally nuts and sometimes with the addition of meat, fish, pasta or cheese. It is usually seen as a healthy dish, although not always low in calories, salt, sugar, or fat because of the dressing that is often added.
The "green salad" or "garden salad" is most often composed of some vegetables, built up on a base of leaf vegetables such as one or more lettuce varieties, spinach, or rocket. Other common vegetables in a green salad include tomato, cucumber, peppers, mushroom, onion, spring onion, red onion, carrot and radish. Other ingredients such as pasta, olives, cooked potatoes, rice, beans, croutons, meat (e.g. bacon, chicken), cheese, or fish (e.g. tuna) are sometimes added to salads.
