Super Greasy Cheeseburger

With the many options, customers must decide if they are looking for convenience and unhealthy food choices. One of the more unhealthy options at McDonald’s is a new sandwich, Bacon Habanero Ranch Quarter Pounder with Cheese. This monster of a sandwich is made with a quarter pound of 100% beef. It is topped with white cheddar cheese, Applewood smoked bacon, tomato, leaf lettuce and a spicy but creamy habanero ranch sauce on a toasted bun. Sounds delicious until the nutritious facts are given. This sandwich alone has 610 calories, 31 grams of fat, and 46 grams of carbohydrates. The fat in this sandwich is 48% of the recommended daily value. Adding fries and a drink to pair with this sandwich increases the calorie count for this meal to well over 1100. Remember, the average person consumes about 2000 calories a day. While these facts are shocking to some, Wendy’s also has some options that can be damaging to one’s health. The Baconator is at the top of the list. The name by itself says heart attack. This signature sandwich has not one, but two quarter pound ground beef patties. Like McDonald’s, it has Applewood smoked bacon. However, the only toppings are

as fried chicken, hamburgers and chips contain a great deal of fat and salt, which cause major

Digestion starts in mouth and it is going through several steps. Teeth which are a Mechanical digestion start tearing and crushing the food down into small pieces so that the food will smoothly run down our throat. The salivary glands are located underneath the back of our tongues and that’s what is creating our saliva. The saliva is the Chemical Digestion is helping soften the food in the mouth so it is easy to swallow. Also saliva is the first out of several chemicals that is breaking the food into smaller bits. The tongue is the muscle that works with the food and saliva to form something similar to balls that can be swallowed. Also tongue contains taste buds so that we know if the food is salt, sweet, sour or bitter. Esophangus is a simple transportation tube that is joining the throat with stomach. When swallowing we are closing a trap door in our throats called the epiglottis. By closing this trap we are preventing the food prom going to trachea and into our lungs. Also Food moves down the esophangus using muscles not gravity. Stomach is the first stop after the Esophangus. When the food gets into stomach the stomach uses chemicals to try to make the food smaller. These chemicals are called gastric juices and they include hydrochloric acid and enzymes. (Enzymes are

3) Once a bolus of food has been formed in the mouth, it is passed by the tongue and jaws to the

large hamburger contains about 600 calories and 35 grams of fat, while a small order of fries

Competitors like Denny 's and Red Robin have always been considered threats to Steak ‘n Shake. Other competitors include Friendly 's, Handel 's Ice Cream, and the other ice cream/ family dinning restaurant chains. Competitors have made it

All cells need nutrient and energy to live and this energy provided by processes that called digestion. For example, when we eat some things like bread, meat, and vegetable, although they are delicious, but they are not forms of nourishment for the cells, therefore they need to change into an acceptable form such as smaller molecules to absorb by blood and carry to body cells. Digestion is break downing of food into appropriate form to absorb into the bloodstream. Digestion system contains the digestive tract called alimentary canal and associated glands that secrete digestive juices for digestion of food. The digestion or breakdown is started when food is taken in the mouth and mastication performed by the teeth and exposed to certain enzymes. The primary function of teeth is grasped and holds the food in the mouth cavity, they also modified to serve as a grinding mill for chewing food that mentions to mechanical digestion. With the help of the teeth, tongue, and jaw movement, food are chewed and mixed with saliva that secreted in the mouth and allowing chemical digestion to happen. The digestion of a ham, cheese, and lettuce sandwich begins in the mouth. The food in the mouth active the endocrine glands to secretion digestive enzyme that called salivary amylase. It helps to break down carbohydrates and starch. Thus, at this stage, the bread of ham and cheese sandwich chemically digested. Amylase is a starch digesting enzyme which breakdowns bread (starch) into maltose that

The stomach mixes the highly acidic gastric juices and enzymes with the chyme to prepare the nutrients absorption in the small intestine. The food does not stay in the pancreas, liver, or gallbladder but simply passes by it. These digestive organs aid in the chemical digestion of chyme as it passes into the small intestine. After staying in the stomach four a few hours and passing by the pancreas, liver and gallbladder, it will go to the small intestine (Primal Pictures). Once the food is in the small intestine, it will take three to five hours from entry at the duodenum to exit from the ileum. The small intestine takes part in the further chemical digestion and absorption of the food. The nutrients from the Chinese food will pass through the wall of the small intestine and into the bloodstream so that the nutrients can spread throughout the rest of the body. The surface area for absorption will increase through tiny projections called villi. The unabsorbed portion of the bolus then enters the large intestine. Once the food remains have reached the large intestine it can take up anywhere between 10 hours to several

The fast food establishment I selected was McDonalds. The typical meal I created was a Quarter Pounder® with Cheese, a pack of Medium Fries, and a small Coca-Cola soda pop drink. It is quite hard to imagine and see this meal fitting into my daily meal, since it has a combined total of 1,020 calories, which is about half of the amount of calories I eat on a regular, lightly to moderately, active day. The calories in the Quarter Pounder® with Cheese are 540 calories, the Medium Fries is 340 calories, and the small Coca-Cola soda pop drink is 140 calories. The fat total in the Quarter Pounder® with Cheese is 28 grams, in the Medium Fries it is 16 grams, and in the Coca-Cola small drink there is no fat total. This makes for a combined total of 44 grams of fat content.

The Dave’s Triple is loaded with unhealthy amounts of fats and calories. A single one has 67 grams of fat total, 30 grams of saturated fat, 4 grams of trans fat, 255 milligrams of cholesterol. The amounts of 42 grams of carbohydrates, 3 grams of fiber, 10 grams of sugars, and 72 grams of protein. All of these add up to about 1,060 calories, and over half of those calories come from fat. Despite the good amounts of protein and carbohydrates, the absurd amounts of fats and cholesterol still make this burger bad for you

The food then lands in the stomach which is located to the left side of the abdominal cavity. It stores food so that

Therefore, by just eating fries you’re taking in about one fourth of your calories for the day already, and that’s only one part out of a meal! Most fast food items have many different chemicals and bad ingredients such as; trans fats, dyes, artificial flavors, butylated hydroxyanisole (BHT), monosodium glutamate (MSG) and much more. Trans fat is fatty acid that adds hydrogen to liquid vegetable oils to make them more solid. BHA is usually added to fatty or oily food to keep the food tasting better for a long period of time. MSG is used as a flavor enhancer sometimes used in chinese food. It’s disgusting how many gross and unhealthy ingredients are in fast food isn’t

Once we are digested enough, we move on to the small intestine. It is a long dark tunnel with finger like folds called villi. In there a bunch of enzymes, come rushing into the small intestine. One of them is bile from the gall bladder and liver this come and absorbs fats like Marge turning her fats into fatty and amino acids. more enzymes come from the pancreas in pancreatic juice these enzymes are amylase, protease and lipase breaking down starch, protein and fats also known as now we are nothing but water and minerals all our nutrients have been absorbed into Jack’s blood stream we are done

2. Trace the path of a cheeseburger and fries through the digestive tract. Indicate each place where mechanical digestion, chemical digestion, and absorption occurs FOR EACH NUTRIENT (carbohydrates, lipids, proteins). Be sure to fully explain the role of EACH organ involved (including the pancreas, liver, and gallbladder).

The digestive process happens when food or anything ingested passes through the gastrointestinal tract. The typical route of the consumed food is the mouth, to the esophagus, to the stomach, next to the small intestine then lastly to the large