madthumbs
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 Chicken McNuggets Myths and Facts |
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McNuggets are composed of minced and mechanically separated chicken bonded with phosphate salts with the addition of emulsifiers, flavorings, and preservatives. They are battered and slightly fried to hold the batter together before being sent to their destination to be deep fried in vegetable oil and served.
Ingredients:
http://www.mcdonalds.com/app_controller.nutrition.categories.ingredients.index.html
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White boneless chicken, water, food starch-modified, salt, chicken flavor (autolyzed yeast extract, salt, wheat starch, natural flavoring (botanical source), safflower oil, dextrose, citric acid, rosemary), sodium phosphates, seasoning (canola oil, mono- and diglycerides, natural extractives of rosemary). Battered and breaded with: water, enriched flour (bleached wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), yellow corn flour, food starch-modified, salt, leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate, calcium lactate), spices, wheat starch, whey, corn starch. Prepared in vegetable oil ((may contain one of the following: Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, partially hydrogenated corn oil with TBHQ and citric acid added to preserve freshness), dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming agent). CONTAINS: WHEAT AND MILK |
Myths and Facts:
Myth: 56% of the nugget is corn
Fact: This figure counts meat from corn-fed chickens
Myth: A tiny percentage is actually lighter fluid (for freshness!)
Fact: The chemical sprayed on the nuggets for freshness is TBHQ -an antioxidant derived from petroleum. It is in question as far as whether it's considered a type of butane but is defined as such in the Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives. Ingesting five grams of TBHQ can kill.
Myth: This chicken head was found in a box of McNuggets
Fact:: The head was allegedly found among a short lived McDonald's product called "Mighty Wings", not McNuggets.
Myth: McDonald's switched to using less salt about the time they stopped using dark meat in an attempt to appeal to the health conscious crowd.
Fact: According to the nutrition facts, sodium has increased from 530 mg for 6 pieces to 670 mg between 2000 and 2005
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