McDonald’s Iced Coffee: Just Say No!

Oh, now you laid the smack down on that ingredient list. I can’t believe what is in those. I am working on a close substitution minus the fat grams, extra calories, and this horrific list of chemicals. No wonder my stomach was so upset all the time.

Great post!

I would argue about your use of the word “instinctively.”
People have been indoctrinated to think that cream (fat) is bad for them.

Succumbing to fears instilled by men who run large corporations geared at making a profit is not instinct. It could be thought of as dying a slow death…

oh, double yuck!

I’ve never bought one and never will but good information to pass around!

I’ve just given up starbuck lattes for the millionth time all in the name of saving some cash and calories!

Major yuck!

Coffee+creamer+palm Sugar= delicious ===> 0.25 USD (in indonesia)

Ick. Ick. Ick.
Good to know that I’m not missing out on anything when I avoid McD’s!

What a shock - Mickey D’s serving food (I guess we can still call it food) that will send you running to the toilet.

At least they are being consistent.

They aren’t the only one. I am still blown away by Kraft’s Bagel-ful - http://healthhabits.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/re-name-the-bagel-ful/

I knew there was a reason I haven’t been to McD’s for a long time!

Hey Move To Portugal, congrats on beating the Czechs today in the Euro

Excellent post! I agree completely about the whole indoctrinated thing. People really do think whole foods are bad for them when they contain fats. It makes me ill now to think about putting crazy chemicals in my body instead of natural “bad stuff” like fat. Blech.

Love it! I am helplessly addicted to iced coffee. I couldn’t stand coffee for most of my life but once pregnant it’s all I wanted. I opt instead for homemade caff free, organic skim, raw sugar, ice for an occasional treat. But sometimes… just sometimes I go to DD or McD and order those evil little buggers when I’m on the go.

Now I can resist buying out. Thanks for dropping some knowledge on my coffee-crazed little self.

I can totally vouch for the diarrhea, I had one on Saturday and then out of the blue got bad diarrhea within hours. I had consumed nothing else at the time, felt well and couldn’t understand what had happened. You have shed some light and now I am telling everyone I know too!

Great job thanks

Eeek!!! I don’t drink them because I’m casein (milk protein) intolerant, but my teenaged children do (sometimes.) I’ll let them know. Thanks.~~Dee

When I was a child, my mom would often boil several tea bags to make a pitcher of iced tea. My taste strays away from tea, and I am often happy to make a pot of coffee from fresh grounds to make a pitcher of iced coffee. What we can do in our own kitchens is often so much better (in so many ways) than what we will find at any restaurant (fast food or otherwise).

YUCK

KUDOS. CHEERS. thank you for this. i think people are finally starting to pay attention to what they put in their body. thank god.

Well, only drunk it once and never found it to be delicious. Thanks for the heads up.

Gross. Thanks for the list. Any corn-syrup pushing faceless entity doesn’t get my money anymore anyway. Coffee at home for me!

Have you tried the stuff? Yuck… It tastes burned… and bitter… Not to mention by the time I got around to tasting it the price had gone up…A lot… The list of ingredients is yuck… and so it is a double yuck for me:)~

Great post! I just wrote a post about the mandatory calorie count displays in New York City, particularly as this relates to Dunkin’ Donuts. They should be posting INGREDIENTS, not calories! People would be shocked by some of the stuff in these foods/beverages. Keep up the great blog!

Wow!! I have had one or two and admit to finding them rather yummy…but you won’t find me drinking one again! Glad I stumbled across this post!

I am totally in love with McDonald’s Iced Coffee….I have never had one single problem with them, unless you consider an addiction a problem? I am hooked and no matter what is in them, I will forever be a fan

Has anyone experienced hives, just got them and can not attribute it to anything else. Felt sick after I drank it and then……

Whoa… thank you so much for letting me know what my guy was telling me about that new iced coffee drink from McD’s.

I really wished that iced coffee on the go was like what I make at home.

now I know that i may not be able to pronounce half the list I know what those additives were doing to my body.

McDonalds sucks, in everyway, on every level; for it’s workers, for the environment, for your health. Bad, Bad, double bad with sprinkles.

That’s disgusting. I don’t eat at McDonalds or any other places like it because they aren’t good for you. So I wasn’t planning on going here anyway but it’s good to know so I can tell other people. Thanks for the information.

I’m so glad that I found this website with the real ingredients! I have tried the iced coffee and loved the flavor, but had the terrible stomach problems within hours of drinking it. I couldn’t understand why coffee, cream and sugar caused so many issues! I’ll pass on these drinks from now on!!

I personally LOVE iced coffees, and I have NEVER gotten diarrhea or sick from them. So I don’t believe any of this..and I am going to continue drinking McDonald’s iced coffees and advocating for them.

Probably wouldn’t be so bad for you if you’d drink no more than one or two a week. I like them too but have backed off as figured anything that taste that good can’t be all that good for you. Isn’t that the way it usually is?

- I’ve been drinking the Iced Coffee almost every morning, it tastes great and I’m not getting any ill effects at all.

The ingredients listed have been used for 20+ years in millions of different types of foods and drinks.

Nothing new here as far as ingredients. It’s ’safe’ to drink, not quite as tasty as Starbucks or Dunkin Doughnuts, but it’s not too shabby for a 3 minute wait and $2.

“I personally LOVE iced coffees, and I have NEVER gotten diarrhea or sick from them. So I don’t believe any of this..and I am going to continue drinking McDonald’s iced coffees and advocating for them.”

Typical “me” generation. It didnt make “ME” sick they say. (Or not that could be noticed.) So therefore…
“I dont give a flip if many, many others are sickened by it. Who cares? Its only a few extra trips to the bathroom. And maybe the doctors, but then we were going there anyway because we always eat processed, dead food with no nutritional value in the name of cost and convenience.”
Starving for nutrition, the masses die of obesity related problems.
Bow down and serve the almighty “taste”. After all, food is for the mouth, not the body right?

“So I don’t believe any of this”

Oh right, they just *made up* the ingredient list because they had nothing better to do. Right. Chemical additives and preservatives and adulterations are good for you. And the moon is made of green cheese, and the earth is flat.
Hello, stick your head in the ground and fingers in your ears mentality. “I dont like it. Therefore it isnt true.”

Or the brilliant conclusion “The ingredients listed have been used for 20+ years in millions of different types of foods and drinks. = It’s ’safe’”

Safe? For whom?? The marketers? Certainly not for the consumers. Have you *looked* lately at the disease, illness and death rate from cancer and other disease these 20+ years?? Do you think all that happened accidentally? Too much sunshine? Ozone? The hospitals are filled with people who have been ingesting this kind of psuedo-food for years, because the FDA is bought and paid for by big manufacturers, and they know the complacent public still believes the FDA is there to “make sure we are safe”.
Grow up and wake up. Youre mama, or your grandmama once told you “you are what you eat”. For a reason. You can fool the taste but you’ll never fool your body. It knows real food that it can digest, and trash that it cant. Keep filling it with trash and depriving it of real nutrients, and it starts failing.