NEW YORK — McDonald’s says it removed artificial flavor from its vanilla soft-serve dessert, beginning the switch natural vanilla flavor in the fall. The rollout is nearly complete at its more than 14,000 U.S. locations, McDonald’s said Wednesday. The soft-serve already had no artificial colors or preservatives.
McDonald’s says a regular-size soft-serve cone is still 200 calories.
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