Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8599 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
Chicken McNuggets Myths and Facts
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.
Chicken McNuggets®:
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
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8599 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
First McDonalds Commercial - Creeepy!
Fri Aug 22, 2008 6:40 am
UncoveredTruth
Joined: 02 Feb 2011 Posts: 6 Location: Louisville, KY
Re: Chicken McNuggets Myths and Facts
madthumbs wrote:
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.
Chicken McNuggets®:
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
The venerable McDonalds organization is now offering 50 McNuggets for TEN DOLLARS!
"Hey kids, why don't we have a mass suicide party? All we have to do is load up on McDonalds Chicken McNuggets and spend ten or twenty bucks and we can stuff ourselves with the most harmful inhumane product on the planet."
My children will never be eating at this place ever, even if they beg for a milkshake (which I was allowed to do when I was younger).
Thu Feb 03, 2011 9:34 am
madthumbs
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8599 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
I don't think McDonald's food is any worse than stuff you can find in Grocery Stores. I don't think there's a conspiracy concerning them, and they're mostly driven by market demand and laws. Some may remember better tasting fries when they were fried in animal fat for instance. Even most sit down restaurants are no better now that so many use SYSCO. Food service managers often can't readily tell you what's even in their foods except where allergens like gluten, nuts, dairy, etc may be a concern. With McDonald's at least it's fairly easy to identify things to avoid, and I have personally known people who benefited from their charity. Factory farming is more of a consumer issue than something to be pinned on corporations. I remember before recycling laws that they were taking initiatives to recycle. Consumers were uncooperative.
Personally, I won't buy anything from them because of how they pay their workers so little. It makes their product suspect.
"Before I started comedy, I used to work at McDonald's making minimum wage. You know what that means when someone pays you minimum wage? You know what your boss was trying to say? It's like, 'Hey if I could pay you less, I would, but it's against the law.' " -Chris Rock
I worked at McDonald's before. It was my first job about 20 years ago. I still remember that no one wanted to be there. The job was a joke and everyone pretty much hated it. I won't trust the food that comes from people that hate their jobs. A good example: a few years later, some guy with an STD got caught jerking off into the mayonnaise at a fast food place nearby. It's nasty, but true. That's what you risk whenever you buy stuff from people who are being treated like dirt.
Mon Feb 07, 2011 7:34 am
madthumbs
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8599 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
They're the highest paying fast food place in the city I work in, and they pay much better than the company I work for (locally anyway). Pay is probably up to the franchise owner.
Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:07 am
alexclaton
Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Posts: 817 Location: Hell on earth
they don't pay minimum wage anymore, this isn't the fuking 70s...
also if the people hate working there maybe they should work somewhere else, shitty work conditions exist because people put up with them in the first place.
also if the people hate working there maybe they should work somewhere else, shitty work conditions exist because people put up with them in the first place.
They did. The place was a revolving door of people leaving and new ones coming in. The working conditions didn't change as a result.
Yes I do agree that there is no way to safe from pollution and 100% pure with out some harmful substances even minor.I do like chicken and packed as well.There is always need to have improvement.
NEARLY all McDonald's advertising is aimed at children. Although the Ronald McDonald 'personality' is not as popular as their market researchers expected (probably because it is totally unoriginal), thousands of young children now think of burgers andchips every time they see a clown with orange hair.
