Peter Aitken wrote:

>>>
>>>>Macdonald's puts sugar in almost everything. Especially the fries.
>>>
>>>'strue. They're sliced, parboiled, sprayed with a thin coating of
>>>sugar water and then lightly fried to bond it to the potato and start
>>>the browning process.
>>
>>Sorry, but you are mistaken. From McD's:
>>French Fries:
>>Potatoes, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, natural flavor (beef
>>source), dextrose, sodium acid pyrophosphate (to preserve natural color).
>>Cooked in partially hydrogenated vegetable oils (may contain partially
>>hydrogenated soybean oil and/or partially hydrogenated corn oil and/or
>>partially hydrogenated canola oil and/or cottonseed oil and/or sunflower
>>oil and/or corn oil).
>
> Dextrose is sugar, better known as glucose.

Found in great amounts in California White potatoes (as advertisedly
used by MD's), especially when cooked.

Derek Janssen (well, that what happens when you x-post to food NG's for
showoff value)