What are hot dogs actually made of?!


Question: What are hot dogs actually made of!?
I mean, what the heck is in a hot dog!? Beef!? Pork!? Who knows!?!?Www@FoodAQ@Com


Answers:
All hot dogs are cured and cooked sausages that consist of mainly pork, beef, chicken and turkey or a combination of meat and poultry!. Meats used in hot dogs come from the muscle of the animal!. Other ingredients include water, curing agents and spices!.

"Variety meats," which include things like liver, kidneys and hearts, may be used in processed meats like hot dogs, but the U!.S!. Department of Agriculture requires that they be disclosed on the ingredient label as "with variety meats" or "with meat by-products!.

Statements like "made with mechanically separated meats (MSM)!." Mechanically separated meat is "a paste-like and batter-like meat product produced by forcing bones, with attached edible meat, under high pressure through a sieve or similar device to separate the bone from the edible meat tissue," according to the U!.S!. Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)!.

Yummmm!!!!!!Www@FoodAQ@Com

This is from Hebrew National Beef Franks!. They taste good, and they're the only brand I buy!. Not great, but better than the other brands!.

Beef Franks

Beef Franks!. The classic! Hebrew National's beef franks are made from 100% pure kosher beef confidently provide premium taste and high quality every time!. At a backyard picnic or a summer ballgame, this is the frank that's sure to satisfy everyone's taste!.

Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 1 Frank (49g)
Serving Per Container 7
Amount Per Serving
Calories 150 Calories from Fat 130

% Daily Value *
Total Fat 14g 20%
Saturated Fat 6g 30%
Cholesterol 30mg 10%
Sodium 370mg 15%
Total Carbohydrates 1g 0%
Fiber 0g 0%
Sugars 0g
Protein 6g

Vitamin A 0% Vitamin C 0%
Calcium 0% Iron 4%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet!.
Your Daily Values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs!.

INGREDIENTS: Beef, water, salt, contains 2% or less of spice, paprika, hydrolyzed soy protein, garlic powder, sodium erythorbate, sodium nitrite, flavorings!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

When you look at the ingredients it will say beef, pork, chicken, turkey, cereal, etc!. However when it says beef it doesn't mean they ground up a filet mignon to stuff in there!. A hot dog is a sausages and sausages were invented to use up all the parts of an animal (lips, ears, nose, and so on)!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

There are different types!. Most brands have all beef versions and some have all turkey versions!. "Regular" wieners almost always contain pork and can also contain poultry as well!. (Oscar Meyer regular wieners contain pork, turkey and chicken)!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

It's made out of each of those meats!. Some hot dogs have more meat of one kind!. It's sometimes wrapped with the animal's intestines!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

it is a generic term for a type of sausage!.they are made from all kinds of meat!. usually a mixture pork, beef, and chickenWww@FoodAQ@Com

Depends, you can buy beef or pork (or turkey) hotdogs!.

They are made up of a blend of meats if you buy regular ones!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

You're better off knowing, but since you ask, pretty much whatever could be scraped off the butcher's floor!Www@FoodAQ@Com

The reject pieces of cows etc!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

pig cartilageWww@FoodAQ@Com

*puts on tape recorder of a croud chanting EWWWWW*Www@FoodAQ@Com

This is hilarious!! ok, my older sister wanted to scare me so she told me hot dogs came from a males stick!.!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

Do you really want to know!?Www@FoodAQ@Com

Horses hoofs and chicken beaks!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.that's what I was told!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

lots of who knows what!Www@FoodAQ@Com

all the left over meat from pigs cows and ect!.!.!.Www@FoodAQ@Com





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