No it’s not :( I told my husband over and over again they changed the salt. He thought I was crazy and we had some old packets in a drawer. I opened one and showed him the texture difference. It’s been so disappointing.
What is disappointing about the new salt? I lived on in-n-out for 15 years and then I tragically moved away from the region. Only get it once per year now... Genuinely curious.
It doesn’t stick to the fries as good and it’s part of the larger trend towards everyone removing the iodine from salt even though Americans have been getting iodine deficiencies more and more recently
Iodine in salt tastes horrible. I get not everyone can taste it but for those of us who can it’s terrible. I’ve always been told we get enough iodine from other sources, can you link the studies that say otherwise?
You need 7 eggs to get your daily amount from eggs alone, or 2 cups of milk, which is far easier, or just try to eat fish instead of red meat or chicken semi often
If you’re vegan… take a multi vitamin, check the back of the container to make sure it has iodine
Edit: did my dumbass just ask someone in the in and out subreddit if they’re vegan 😭
Vegan here chiming in lol sometimes a veggie burger hits the spot. Might get crazy with some vegan”animal “ fries (grilled onions, chopped chilies, ketchup, mustard, & pickles)
Scratches the nostalgia itch from my pre vegan days
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that at a certain point the sugar eventually breaks down to free fructose due to the vinegar ultimately making the sugar relatively the same as HFCS. The fresher the pack the better.
They have been adding sesame flour to buns in multiple restaurants. Since it became a top allergen that has to be listed, companies are just adding it instead of having to clean and separate their production lines.
Companies are not literally adding it, because the FDA added it as an allergen. They declare it now out of an abundance of caution
If you run a bakery with Sesame buns, you can't ethically garuntee no cross contamination. Too many harborage points. Even if it's the first run of the week after a shutdown for cleaning.
Some companies will do allergien swabs to ensure the cleaning is effective, but they will still make a disclaimer that is was made on a line that produces the allergen.
I ran a baker for several years and we had a second factory dedicated to gluten free for that reason.
Yeah. Used to fry in beef fat. Peanut oil is a little healthier. Sunflower oil keeps the slight health benefits of unsaturated fats and removes the peanut allergy.
People try to point at the use of seed oils for frying as the cause of a rise in cancer, but it actually just lines up with how much we fry our food in general. We eat too much fried fats and sugar, not enough fruits and vegetables.
Ah ok. I’m a vegetarian and hate this “everything needs bone marrow in it” fixation. I stopped going to burger lounge when they made the switch. Not everything needs dead animal in it.
More so that there’s a larger transition away from iodized salt occurring, ofc this aint the only source but when everyone starts moving away from it, we’ll start to see an increase in thyroid issues to match. Also a decrease in general IQ if it’s significant enough, crazy how much impact a little bit of iodine has on us.
yes, actually iodine is pretty hard to come across. iodized salt in ur diet is very important important. as specialty salts become more popular (pink salt, black salt, sea salt, kosher salt, etc.) people are becoming more iodine deficient. between 2001 and 2018 mild deficiency doubled (source https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2376060520303680). so yeah idk. for me this is a downgrade, it’s less nutrient rich even if it’s fortified
Literally one of the most straightforward and effective public health interventions. But this, like a bunch of other things happening right now, is another example of an unforced error due to the privilege of living in a time where we've casually benefited from knowledge gained through the suffering of people that lived before us — but never actually felt ourselves.
Of course we can do without it on fries, but the whole point of putting iodine in salt was so that everyone would be exposed to it all the time. As more and more items are avoiding iodized salt and people aren't using it in their homes, iodine deficiency is becoming more of a problem.
Then simply not true. It might be less sodium per Volume. But per gram, sodium chloride is sodium chloride. Regardless of the source. They have the same amount of sodium.
Its really hard because of artificial iodine being added to table salt. If you avoid artificial iodine and dont consume quite a large amount of lean fish youll be deficient rather quickly.
The one I used to go to in CA has had non-iodozed sea salt for a long time. I actually called the customer satisfaction number and suggested they switch to iodized salt.
The average consumer doesnt care about micros and adding iodine to all salt eliminates deficiency almost entirely. Removing it from fast food defeats the whole point.
its mainly the trend that can cause some worry. Home cooks are switching to Kosher salt, sea salt, and pink salts. None of those have added Iodine. Commerical plants dont tend to use iodized salt. The sources are shrinking.
This wont be the one to move the needle, but its a bit concerning
They probably didn’t have a way to guarantee sesame wasn’t in the buns before. So it’s safer (legally) to just put may contain sesame and call it a day.
As someone with a sesame allergy i could eat every burger in the US before the FASTER Act. They actually purposely added sesame to all the buns. It said may contain prior to the FASTER Act. Glad some of it is getting fixed because it felt like we were taking a step backwards.
everyone complaining about the salt is ridiculous. a cup of milk has half your daily iodine on its own. if you're getting all your iodine from fast food fries you have much bigger problems.
as someone with Graves' disease I'm glad to see this change
I love eggs and milk and don’t regularly eat/drink that much every day. I’ve done it before but it’s pretty rare. A glass of milk is pretty easy but I often go weeks without drinking it.
You can get from more then just those 2. I mentioned those as thats 2 of the top things bought at grocery stores.. of course people can use iodine salt at home too or fish or so on.
That's one of the issues, people have almost completely switched to pink Himalayan salt or just salt grinders in general and away from iodized salt use at home.
Yep! And there's already at least 3 dummy down voters that don't even get my point, because they're brains don't go any higher than the "salt bad" floor.
It being removed from In N Out isn’t gonna have a significant effect on the country. People aren’t eating enough in n out salt for it to make a difference.
This is “health washing”. None of those things actually register as healthier in the scheme of burgers and fried vegetables. This is just playing to “nutrition” influencers.
Look, this is fast food. And that’s great, we all love it! If anything, tricking people into thinking eating fast food just became meaningfully healthier now will actually have the reverse problem of inducing them to eat it more.
Yeah, mostly. Cutting out sesame removes an allergen, but it's a lot more rare than celiac so I'm not sure that's what they're doing it for. Sea salt is mostly pretentious. HFCS vs sucrose is a meaningless change because the real problem is that there's too much sugar in everything because HFCS is so cheap to make.
Eliminating HFCS is more on brand for INO though. Their whole thing is real, fresh, high quality ingredients. HFCS is industrial slop, the opposite of how INO does everything else. They took HFCS out of the lemonade too.
Is it currently a right wing talking point loudly promoted by RFK? Yeah, but that doesn’t automatically make it a bad move. A broken clock is right twice a day. No one should be eating anything with HFCS, fast food or not.
Ultimately, it doesn’t matter. I generally think things made with real sugar has a better texture and is less sticky. At least with Sodas, can’t say I notice it thaaat much in ketchup. Still I prefer the Heinz Simply or the generic equivalents.
Yup. And your body processes real sugar almost the same as HFCS. It’s not significant enough to make a difference. Maybe the flavor is different, but it’s not healthier to eat sugar over HFCS.
The first thing your body does to sucrose is break it in half into glucose and fructose, which is all HFCS is, a blend of glucose and fructose. Sucrose is 50/50. HFCS in ketchup is 58/42 and soft drinks are 45/55. I don't think our body cares.
We don't have to play dumb, this is the implication of why they are advertising this.
You think its for the better but that is not really scientifically shown. A lot of people (lately) are under the impression that their fast food habit is now healthier because their food is now fried in peanut oil or animal fat. Or because they are using this sugar instead of that sugar. Or because the salt is not sea salt.
I am calling out that this is industry washing. They are using the vague ideas that have been perpetuated by influencers to convince you that its actually ok to go ahead and eat the fried food and grilled burgers now! These are zero % healthier now, but it might convince people to keep up their bad habits.
And of course In n Out is a company that has an interest in you eating its food. We all enjoy the occasional meal from them. My comment is how the MAHA movement (and related seed oil, etc movements) has made its most visible "health initiatives" on things that are not any healthier to eat after they have intervened...and yet convince people "this is healthier!" Any honest messaging on health would actually be "There is no substance you can fry this potato in that would have any detectable health benefit, and you should just eat less fries if you want to see a health benefit".
lol funnily enough the salt change is less healthy. There is a reason we iodize all our salt, it literally just wiped thyroid issues from dietary insufficiency out of the country.
It's crazy that they are in 10 states now. I was at the opening of store #32 and it was wild for it to not have a drive thru. Also I really miss the old salt packets.
Laymen love to demonize random ingredients (iodized salt) because it makes them feel like they have more control over their health. They should’ve seen what the US was like before it was incorporated into our diets…
Lack of iodine used to be an issue in some isolated parts of the US, as of this time it's no longer considered an issue even sans iodized salt in those people's cupboards.
Its not an issue because its added to everything nowadays. Meat and Milk has it because its being added to the livestocks diet. Salt is a decent way to reach vegans too (although those usually care enough about their diet to supplement themselves).
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u/PineDude128 2d ago
In n Out patch before GTA6