What's in Fast food Milk Shakes?

Answer 1

A question that should be left forever unanswered...

Answer 2

there are a whole bunch of ingredients in these products and of course each company uses a different formula. In general there is flavor (like chocolate, strawberry) usually several dairy type ingredients like casein, non fat dry milk, whey, etc, and something to build texture (to make it thick) like guar gum or carregeenen. If you go to the restaurant or the web site for each individual company you can probably get an exact ingredient line. Then you can ask about specific ingredients. By the way real milk shakes are made with milk and ice cream and cannot be beat although I think MacDonald's are not too bad. So of the others aren't worth the calories.
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Answer 3

Milk, ice cream, flavoring. Even the ones that come 'liquified' have the same 'ingredients' ... they're just not 'half frozen' the way the 'come out' to you at the Fast Food place. If you want a 'really good' milkshake, go to a place that 'makes them from scratch' ... you can get some really good 'flavors' at those places, because they make the milk shakes 'to order.' I did work in a place that had only three flavors, though ... chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla ... and they 'hand made' them, but did it 'all at once' and then 'froze the milk shake' and whipped it up when ordered. I KNOW ... I was the 'malt girl' who did that.

Answer 4

A milkshake is a sweet, cold beverage which is made from milk, ice cream or iced milk, and sweet flavorings such as fruit syrup or chocolate sauce in Canada, most regions of the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom. Milkshakes are usually served in a tall glass with a straw, and whipped cream may be added as a topping. Three popular milkshake flavors are vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry.

Full-service restaurants, soda fountains, and diners usually prepare and mix the shake "by hand" from scoops of actual ice cream and milk in a blender or drink mixer using a stainless steel cup. Fast food outlets do not use actual ice cream, but manufacture their shakes in milkshake machines which freeze and serve a premade milkshake mixture. Throughout the United States, especially in fast food and casual dining restaurants, a milkshake may be referred to as a shake.

Answer 5

This is a list of ingredients of a milk shake gathered from McDonald's proprietary website.

Strawberry Triple Thick® Shake:
Vanilla Reduced Fat Ice Cream: Milk, sugar, cream, nonfat milk solids, corn syrup solids, mono- and diglycerides, guar gum, dextrose, sodium citrate, artificial vanilla flavor, sodium phosphate, carrageenan, disodium phosphate, cellulose gum, vitamin A palmitate. CONTAINS: MILK. Strawberry Syrup: Sugar, water, corn syrup, strawberries, high fructose corn syrup, natural (botanical source) and artificial flavors, pectin, citric acid, xanthan gum, potassium sorbate (preservative), caramel color, calcium chloride, red 40. May contain small amounts of other shake flavors served at the restaurant, including egg ingredients when Egg Nog Shakes are available

DISGUSTING!!!

Be sure to check out their website. I provided the link below. There is more grotesque nonsense from where the above came from.

Answer 6

Fast milk to match the speed of your food.

Answer 7

Jack in box claims real ice cream McDonalds uses a mix, Wahatabuger same, Wendys doesn't they got there own thing..the best i've found is at 31 flavors the scoop right from the hard flavors behind the counter...

Answer 8

well i used to work at a fast food place and when the milkshake machine was empty someone would go to the back and get a big bag of this white liquid... it wasn't kept cold or anything... then they would pour it into the machine... and then when you selected the flavor you wanted it would pour out the flavor with the white stuff at the same time to mix it. note: the machine was NEVER cleaned, only new mixture poured in when it was empty...

Answer 9

The same thing that's in the rest of fast food - junk. Ick. That's not to say that it isn't tasty when you're in the mood for junk though.

Answer 10

Its mostly a synthetic edible rubber along with smaller amounts of other things such as flavorings and some dairy.

Answer 11

20 spoonfuls of sugar and a bit of skimmed milk