What's in McDonald's Food Chicken? (Hint: It’s NOT Chicken)

My wife is always talking about what is in fast food, and it is starting to get the attention of people everywhere. If you haven't already seen it go watch FoodInc. awesome movie.
Now, my son loves Chicken Nuggets, who doesn't? They are an easy eat, and can be fun. However, a recent study says:

Frying chicken is fairly simple, if a little messy. You dip pieces of chicken into a mix of egg and milk, roll them around in flour and spices, then cook the chicken in sizzling hot oil until the pieces are brown, crispy and delicious.

But wait! Don’t forget to add a dash of dimethylpolysiloxane, an anti-foaming agent made of silicone that is also used in Silly Putty and cosmetics.

Now add a heaping spoonful of tertiary butylhydroquinone (TBHQ), which is a chemical preservative and a form of butane (AKA lighter fluid). One gram of TBHQ can cause “nausea, vomiting, ringing in the ears, delirium, a sense of suffocation, and collapse," according to A Consumer’s Dictionary of Food Additives. Five grams of TBHQ can kill you.

Sprinkle on thirteen other corn-derived ingredients, and you're only about twenty shy as many ingredients as a single chicken nugget from McDonald’s. And you were using pulverized chicken skin and mechanically reclaimed meat for your chicken, right?

No one in his or her right mind would cook chicken like this. Yet every day, hoards of Americans consume these ingredients in Chicken McNuggets, which McDonalds claims are “made with white meat, wrapped up in a crisp tempura batter.”

However chicken only accounts for about 50% of a Chicken McNugget. The other 50% includes a large percentage of corn derivatives, sugars, leavening agents and other completely synthetic ingredients, meaning that parts of the nugget do not come from a field or farm at all. They come from a petroleum plant. Hungry?

Scariest perhaps is the fact that this recipe is a new and improved, “healthier” Chicken McNugget launched in 2003 after a federal judge called the deep-fried poultry bites “a McFrankenstein creation of various elements not utilized by the home cook.” Also terrifying is the fact that these McFrankenuggets are overwhelmingly marketed to children who love their fun shapes and kid-friendly size.

While McDonald’s is of course the poster child for fast food ire, if you look at the nutritional information for chicken at any fast food restaurant, the ingredient list will be dozens of items longer than the egg, flour, chicken and oil recipe you might use at home.

Eating fast food is a habit, but it is one that you can break? No doubt you rarely plan to have a delicious meal at Arby’s for dinner, a lingering lunch at Carl’s Jr. or a special breakfast at the Burger King in the airport. It just happens. You are late, tired, hungry, broke, or all of the above. You have no time, and you must find something to eat before you crash. All of a sudden a bright, friendly sign beckons from the side of the road: Drive-through!

In five minutes you are happily chowing down on an inexpensive, filling meal. But don’t be fooled – the true cost of fast food does not come out of your wallet, but out of your body, your health, and your years on this earth.

You can break the unhealthy fast food habit: educate yourself about the true ingredients of fast food items, plan ahead for your meals, carry healthy snacks like nuts to ward off hunger and cook healthy chicken recipes at home. Convince yourself that fast food is the most disgusting stuff on the planet and is harmful to you and to those you love. After reading this, that shouldn’t be too hard.

Full ingredient list for a Chicken McNugget (from McDonald’s website):

White boneless chicken, water, food starch-modified, salt, seasoning (autolyzed yeast extract, salt, wheat starch, natural flavoring (botanical source), safflower oil, dextrose, citric acid, rosemary), sodium phosphates, seasoning (canola oil, mono- and diglycerides, 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 (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with TBHQ and citric acid added to preserve freshness). Dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming agent.

Full ingredient list for my mother’s fried chicken:
Bone-in chicken pieces, egg, milk, flour, canola oil, salt & pepper.

Source:www.weather.com...

Here is what is in the new (very very old) McRib:

How many ingredients are there?
At face value, the sandwich contains just pork, onions, and pickle slices slathered in barbecue sauce and laid out on a bun. But the truth is, there are roughly 70 ingredients. The bun alone contains 34, says TIME's Melnick. In addition to chemicals like ammonium sulfate and polysorbate 80, the most egregious may be azodicarbonamide — "a flour-bleaching agent most commonly used in the manufactur[ing] of foamed plastics like gym mats and the soles of shoes." According to McDonald's own ingredient list, the bun also includes calcium sulfate and ethoxylated mono- and diglycerides, among other chemicals.

Ooof. What's the meat made of?
Pig innards and plenty of salt. Typically, "restructured meat product" includes pig bits like tripe, heart, and scalded stomach, says Whet Moser at Chicago Magazine, citing a 1995 article by Robert Mandigo, a professor at the University of Nebraska. These parts are cooked and blended with salt and water to extract salt-soluble proteins, which act as a "glue" that helps bind the reshaped meat together.

Is it really that bad for you?
Well, it's certainly not good for you. Though "slightly trimmer than the Big Mac," which contains 540 calories and 29 grams of fat, says Christina Rexrode at USA Today, the McRib, first introduced in 1982, still packs in 500 calories and 26 grams of fat. And despite its name, one thing you won't find inside a McRib is bones. The absence of any detectable "rib" is what gives the unnutritious mush its "quirky sense of humor," says Marta Fearon, McDonald's U.S. marketing director.

source:theweek.com...

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Gym Mats? Sweaty ball sacks in your sandwich-yummy.

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hmm..
dammit.. but it taste so good
there just had to be a catch, same goes with candy and smoking

I was just making fun of bacon and sausage lovers on the other thread.


and here is karma with my nuggets lol. I knew they were bad , but soooo good , how they get that chicken to be so yummy and dippipable ready !


I think i'll eat them one last time , and then say to tell with you !


Everything is poison . Typing on this keyboard i'm probably getting germs , and plastic petrolioum byproducts all up in me

and why is chicken news on weather website lol

I'm not gonna lie, I could really go for some maccas right now, it must be the hangover :/

I'm about to order a b-b-q pizza right now. I hope my local pizza place at least uses some good products.

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Wasn't that in the olden days though or are McDonald's lying on their website:

Are the Chicken McNuggets really 100% chicken?
The only meat used in McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets is chicken breast meat. The white meat is minced before being shaped into nuggets, and then coated with a specially seasoned batter at our trusted suppliers, such as Keystone Foods. You may also like to try the Chicken Selects Premium Breast Strips which are made from white meat chicken which has not been minced. To find out more about Keystone Foods, read their story here.
www.mcdonalds.com...

That to me sounds like it is chicken, not "hint, it's not chicken" :S

EDIT:

Sorry I didn't read your post properly. I do think your title mislead me but my bad for not reading it properly.

Yeah just read the ingredients and there are a hell of a lot, which are probably disguised as preservatives etc.

I love McDonalds.

I hate Mcdonalds so much!

From the food and the staff, all the way to the idiotically built road that leads you to it.

Yet, I can't help but tuck into my order of fries, double cheese and 9 mcnuggets from time to time.

Damn you McDonalds!

Damn you to hell!

i stopped eating at fastfood restaurants two years ago and boy i do not regret my decision, especially when i read sth like this =)

500 calories for

I stopped taking my kids there a few years ago. All they wanted was the toy anyway, so I just go in a buy the toys. Once a woman asked my why I didn't want the happy meal and I told her in front of about 15 customers that I would never allow my children to eat the garbage they called food. I do LOVE their apple pies, but I must resist the urge to eat garbage...so hard.

Originally posted by samlf3rd
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Gym Mats? Sweaty ball sacks in your sandwich-yummy.

But really what did you expect was in those nuggets, gold?
That's what nuggets are, crap!