List of restaurants switching to beef tallow for fries: RFK Jr. says it's healthier, is it?

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14. That is WAY misleading

Seven of the ingredients in US fries are different oils as US fryer oil is usually a blended oil. The British use an oil branded as Crisp n Dry, which is pure rapeseed oil, in their store fryers. The reason they list oil twice in the US is all frozen french fries are partially cooked at the factory. Good fries are always cooked twice.

Also, consider the citric acid, TBHQ and dimethylpolysiloxane. Fryer oil worldwide contains those three ingredients - the first two are preservatives to keep the oil from going bad in the fryer during the workday, and the third is an antifoaming agent used to keep the oil from splashing the employees when they put food in it. It would be too hazardous to be a fry cook without dimethylpolysiloxane.

The moral of this story is, the US has far more stringent labeling requirements than the UK does. In the US, if your process uses oil in three different places you must put oil in the ingredient statement three times - and if you use a blended oil, like the US does, each oil must be listed separately. The same British food lists oil once.