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title: "Seven McDonald's Burgers Now Free of Artificial Ingredients"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/e9b52945-4554-4851-975f-73c83d2729eb
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/seven-mcdonalds-burgers-now-free-of-artificial-ingredients-2707970
category: "Burger"
industry: "Restaurants"
segment: "Burger"
published: 2018-09-26T18:13:01.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T02:33:52.934Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/79659de04800e40d38d1513934355d9e4050.jpg
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# Seven McDonald's Burgers Now Free of Artificial Ingredients

**TL;DR:** Seven McDonald's burgers are now free of artificial ingredients, following a year-long effort to remove them. The changes have been made at all of the fast food chain's U.S. restaurants.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2018-09-26. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/seven-mcdonalds-burgers-now-free-of-artificial-ingredients-2707970).*

## Story

Seven of McDonald’s burgers are now free of artificial ingredients, according to a Nation’s Restaurant News report.

The hamburger, cheeseburger, double cheeseburger, McDouble, Quarter Pounder with Cheese, Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese and Big Mac have been altered at all of the fast food chain’s U.S. restaurants, according to the article.

“It has been a little bit of an effort,” McDonald’s USA president Chris Kempczinski said, declining to reveal how much this initiative cost, according to the article. “We’ve been working on this for over a year.”

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- McDonald's (company)
- Chris Kempczinski (person)
- fast food (topic)
- menu reformulation (topic)
- artificial ingredients (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/seven-mcdonalds-burgers-now-free-of-artificial-ingredients-2707970). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/e9b52945-4554-4851-975f-73c83d2729eb).