Ingredients in McNuggets?!
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They're actually about 44% chicken, which is still ridiculous for something called a "chicken" nugget.
In fact, a Chicken McNugget has 38 ingredients, some of them seem like they have no place in cuisine. There's too many to mention here, but take a look at the links below for the full list and descriptions of the ingredients!
Yech, makes me happy I don't eat em!
http://www.thehealthyboy.com/2010/06/wha…
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article…
According to the McDonalds website, the nuggets are made of the following.
"Ingredients
Chicken, water, salt, sodium phosphates.
Battered and breaded with: bleached wheat flour, water, wheat flour, food starch-modified, salt, spices, wheat gluten, paprika, dextrose, yeast, garlic powder, partially hydrogenated soybean oil and cottonseed oil with mono -and diglycerides, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda, ammonium bicarbonate, monocalcium phosphate), natural flavor (plant source) with extractives of paprika.
Prepared in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with TBHQ and citric acid added to preserve freshness). Dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming agent."
The majority of the nugget is chicken, to be only 20% would mean that the breading around it would be outrageous. Since there don't appear to be any fillers in the meat, it's safe to say that it is not 20% chicken.
Propane and butane are not perservatives and cannot be used as such.
Dimethylpolysiloxane is used as an anti-foaming agent, according to what I've read, it's to keep the oil from foaming and is permitted according to the FDA and EU food additive list for human consumption in certain quantities.
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cd…
Nothing really sticks out in this list, a business as large as McDonalds is pretty heavily regulated by itself and various government organizations. (To be in so many places around the world requires that they follow their laws/regulations.)
http://nutrition.mcdonalds.com/nutrition…
http://www.inchem.org/documents/jecfa/je…
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cd…
It IS chicken - but do you know what part of the chicken?
They are made from the ground up pieces of chicken left over after the chickens are butchered:
skin, BONES, fat, gristle and they put in a little meat.
That is what they are made of.
be vegetarian & you wouldn't have to worry about it. (:
vegetarian.
crap crap and more crap. Avoid them at all costs.
