{"id":14006,"date":"2025-07-16T11:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T11:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/14006\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T11:31:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T11:31:06","slug":"white-house-posts-misinformation-about-in-n-out-menu-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/14006\/","title":{"rendered":"White House posts misinformation about In-N-Out menu change"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a news release on Monday, the White House cited In-N-Out<\/a> switching to beef tallow as evidence of the success of the Trump administration\u2019s push<\/a> to \u201cMake America Healthy Again.\u201d But this never actually happened\u00a0\u2014 In-N-Out still uses sunflower oil to cook its French fries, the California burger chain<\/a> confirmed with the San Francisco Chronicle.<\/a> (The Chronicle and SFGATE are both owned by Hearst but have separate newsrooms.)<\/p>\n

While the White House news release<\/a> has since been updated, the Chronicle reported that it had linked to an X post<\/a> from an In-N-Out fan account: \u201cIt\u2019s official. In-N-Out will be transitioning to 100% pure beef tallow.\u201d In a reply to the April post, the account clarified it was an April Fools\u2019 Day joke.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cInformation was recently published in error stating that In-N-Out Burger has transitioned to beef tallow for cooking French fries,\u201d Denny Warnick, the chain\u2019s chief operating officer, told the Chronicle. \u201cWe continue to work on an upgrade to our current sunflower oil, however we have not yet made a change.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

In-N-Out CEO Lynsi Snyder previously told SFGATE<\/a> in an email that the chain plans to add an oat milk creamer option and is \u201cresearching an even better-quality oil for our fries.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

While In-N-Out has not swapped out its sunflower oil, the company did announce in May that it was making some changes to its menu<\/a>: switching to ketchup made with real sugar rather than high-fructose corn syrup and phasing out artificial food dyes. The White House news release now links to an article about these changes rather than the April Fools\u2019 day prank post about beef tallow.<\/p>\n

While Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has touted beef tallow as a healthier alternative to seed oils, medical experts have cited research showing beef tallow is actually worse for heart health<\/a> due to it being high in saturated fat. The growing negative reputation of seed oils such as those from canola, soybeans and sunflowers, however, has even spread to Bay Area restaurants, despite no medical evidence indicating that they pose serious health risks. Some restaurants like Camino Alto in San Francisco\u2019s Cow Hollow have eliminated seed oils from their kitchens, according to the Chronicle<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a news release on Monday, the White House cited In-N-Out switching to beef tallow as evidence of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,13499],"class_list":{"0":"post-14006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-sfgfood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}