This is the novelty from McDonald’s.
It’s been a week now since the fast-food chain introduced vegetable fries to replace the famous potatoes. The three flavors are: carrot, beet and parsnip.
But are they better and healthier than potato fries?
Friday on Twitter, a user posted a tweet on the comparison between vegetable fries and potatoes. He draws a concrete conclusion: “If you think you’re eating healthy with their vegetables, you’ve failed”, he tweeted demonstrating that vegetable fries are more caloric, fattier and saltier than their predecessors.
“Frying will inevitably be oily”
In an interview at Parisian, Nicolas Marcos is a dietician in Nice and recalled that, whatever the style of fries, “cooking in a deep fryer will inevitably be greasy”. He adds that “calorific and energy intake is relatively close between the two products” (313 kilocalories and 1298 kilojoules for vegetable fries, 289kcal and 1210kj for potato fries, for 100 grams each time).
For the sugar level, there are thirty times more in vegetable fries than in potatoes: “Carrots, parsnips and beets contain sugar naturally, while there is none in potato fries”, advanced the dietitian.
Good news though
But it’s not all downsides. For example, there is the fiber portion. It is 9.5g in vegetable fries against 0.3g in potatoes: “Fibers are used to prevent diabetes, better control blood sugar and promote intestinal transit”, Nicolas Marcos said. McDonald’s mentioned “fiber-rich fries with complementary nutritional qualities”.
In conclusion, there are pros and cons to both camps. So, rather vegetable fries or potato fries? Test and you will see!