Do you use fresh milk in all McDonald's milk based products? (2024)

FAQs

Do you use fresh milk in all McDonald's milk based products? ›

All the milk we use in our tea, coffee, porridge and Happy Meal® milk bottles is semi-skimmed, organic and from U.K. farms. We only ever use fresh dairy milk for our ice-creams, milkshakes and McFlurry® desserts.

McDonald's typically uses whole milk to prepare their shakes. However, the specific ingredients and recipes might vary slightly based on location and product availability.

Hildebrandt Farms

Milk producers for the delicious soft serve at McDonald's.

Hildebrandt Farms: A McDonald's Dairy Supplier | McDonald's.

We use organic milk in some products, though not all. We use it in our semi-skimmed milk in our tea, coffee, Happy Meal® milk bottles and porridge in mainland Britain and Northern Ireland.

We only ever use fresh dairy milk for our ice-creams, milkshakes and McFlurry® desserts. We use milk powder for a small number of products including our chocolate muffins and chocolate brownies.

Great question. Our shakes contain milk from our reduced-fat soft serve, which makes them thick and creamy. Dairy regulations actually vary from state to state on what can officially be called a 'milkshake. ' We like to keep it simple and refer to them strictly as 'shakes.

Recognizing this, some of our franchised and company-owned restaurants have added staple food items, like milk and bread, to their regular menus – enabling customers to shop for basics they'd usually find at supermarkets via McDonald's contactless takeaway and Drive Thrus.

Ingredients: Milk, Sugar, Cream, Corn Syrup, Natural Flavor, Mono And Diglycerides, Cellulose Gum, Guar Gum, Carrageenan, Vitamin A Palmitate. Contains: Milk.

Ingredients: EGG. UK or Irish sourced egg produced to Lion Quality standards or equivalent. N.B. Cooked in the restaurants using Liquid Vegetable and Dairy Fat Blend (see ingredients below) which contains MILK.

Does McDonald's have other milk? ›

McDonald's - Together, at last. MILKLAB Oat Milk has officially joined the McCafé lineup.

Today, Keystone's US operations are proud to produce and deliver the highest quality beef, chicken and fish products to McDonald's, including more than 150 million pounds of beef, 300 million pounds of chicken and 15 million pounds of fish each year.

While McDonald's partners with outside manufacturers, including Tyson, for its chicken nuggets and other meats like its sausages, you can't buy frozen chicken nuggets in-store to cook at your leisure. Fortunately, there are plenty of McNugget dupes on the market.

The cattle on beef and dairy farms which supply our menu are reared in a variety of production systems which use both grass and cereal based diets.

The firm determined that the investment in UHT equipment would be cost-prohibitive for dairies, so McDonald's opted for fresh milk with a 21-day shelf life with most dairies coding the bottle caps with a 15-day “use-thru” date.

However, you may like to know that all our sauces and milk products are fully pasteurised.

Semi Skimmed Milk

Ingredients: 100% Organic Semi-Skimmed MILK.

McDonald's North America has yet to add any dairy-free milk options for coffee, but some other countries have begun adding it to their McCafe menus. Austrian locations, for example, now serve oat milk.