Sometimes, only a McDonald’s will do.

So, how do they manage to make them so darn tasty?

Then, to substitute the delicious but unhealthy beef tallow, they used natural beef flavoring.

McDonald’s hash brown

As food chemist Gary Reineccius explained toEater,natural beef flavoring doesn’t necessarily come from beef.

Rather, “The flavor in beef is created during the cooking process.”

Then … poof we have meat flavor," he advised.

Brody Jenner and Kaitlynn Carter eating Mc Donald’s hash browns

McDonald’s breakfast with hash browns