Ingredients you can trust

Today, there are too many products on store shelves with artificial or chemical ingredients like nitrites, phosphates, dies, extracts, or bulkers and fillers derived from soy or wheat. Many people, especially young children, are allergic to these additives and preservatives causing mental and physical health problems. Some believe food intolerances are related to the weakening of the immune system. When the weaknesses become chronic, that is when an allergy may develop. Consumers can help make changes in our food industry by seeking out foods at stores that are clean and free of these additives.

Mclean recipes are made from ingredients that you can not only trust you can pronounce them too. Recipes are primarily made up of: meat, salt, sugar and spice. Spices range from herbs and seasonings to carrageenan (a product made from sea weed) and natural smoke.

Each product recipe has a custom spice blend that must adhere to strict food safety and allergen controls. Mclean venders purchase these spice blends from companies that demonstrate accredited and certified Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPS), plus Food Security and Allergen Controls. Spice venders must demonstrate they do not use irradiated spices or ingredients from GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms).

Always, where possible, the raw or less processed option will be selected in a recipe. For example, we choose sea salt vs regular table salt and raw cane sugar vs white sugar. In the more raw form, these ingredients are easier to digest and may offer healthy benefits over the more processed alternatives.

Our ultimate goal is to only use spices that are certified organic.