What’s In Fast Food Chicken?

[DainBramaged]

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 McDonald’s 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?

http://www.undergroundhealth.com/whats-in-fast-food-chicken/


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[hedgehog]

1. I begin to understand why fast food is so loaded with calories,

but always left me hungry!

From the link:

"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."

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. "Convince yourself that fast food is the most disgusting stuff on the planet"

Done that, years & years ago.
Now when I see fast food places along the highway, I feel mildy ill.

The french fries that never die was a good starting point for me.

[leftyohiolib]

2. thank god it's not pink slime

[Igel]

3. Pretty subtle distinction you're aiming at.

Or was that the point?

[leftyohiolib]

25. yea it was kinda my point

[Igel]

4. Gave my kid his choice of places to go to.

Just to get out of the house and interact with other kids.

He'd gone to McDonald's, happily so, numerous times. Asked if that was one of the places he was considering. "No, their chicken nuggets taste like fat."

"That's because their chicken nuggets *are* fat."

He made a really nasty face in response, along the lines of, "And I ate that stuff? And you *let* me?"

He's decided McDonald's is permanently struck off his list of food places.

[Arugula Latte]

5. We raised our kids without McDonald's food.

That decision looks better and better every day.

[Whisp]

6. went out for a burger the other day...

burger king I think.

We very rarely eat fast food unless we make burgers and chicken and stuff like that at home. But once in a while a burger sounds good. Well, it tasted okay.

But the both of us felt awful the rest of the afternoon, diahrrea and just that logey awful feeling.

I don't remember being affected that way when I used to eat a lot of fast food. I guess your body gets used to the crud or you don't notice that you feel shitty all the time when there is no other feeling.

[Egalitarian Thug]

7. The toxic waste that McD's sells has been inedible to me since the '80s.

When the egg McMuffin was new, I ate them several times a week and regularly enjoyed their burgers, fries, and the occasional Big Mac, but as more and more fake food found it's way into their concoctions, my body told me to please stop poisoning it.

I'm no health nut, I eat meat, smoke & drink, and abuse my body in a variety of ways, but that shit is just nasty.

[hedgehog]

9. I wonder if McDonalds sold more real food forty years ago or

if as a kid I just didn't notice how awful it is!

[L0oniX]

14. Jack's 15 cent hamburgers rocked back then.

[Egalitarian Thug]

18. I'm pretty sure they did because, even as a kid I noticed how the taste changed

over time. The obvious things, like cooking their fries in vegetable oil instead of lard, were easy to spot. We got the McMuffin in Denver in the '70s and the egg, cheese, and Canadian Bacon were all recognizable and tasted the same as what we would get at other restaurants, we even started making them ourselves. Plus, things like the empty Thomas' English muffin packages.

The first things I noticed changing were the meat and the buns. Burger King and A&W still tasted like a burger for years after McD's burgers changed to whatever they were/are.

[hobbit709]

10. Not that I would go to McD's in the first place.

But if I want chicken I ain't going to a burger joint in the second place.
And if I get chicken, it has to be real chicken, not unidentifiable pieces.

[hedgehog]

11. " mechanically reclaimed meat "

[Egalitarian Thug]

19. America in 4:29. How sad is that? n/t

[Mr.Bill]

12. Even the commercials for fast food on TV make me wanna barf.

I can't believe I used to eat that stuff. A few weeks ago I was talked into trying the new KFC original recipe boneless chicken. It tasted like pure salt. The fries weren't too bad, though.

[hedgehog]

17. I bought KFC a couple times when I was hungry and tired -

Fried chicken, mashed potatoes, biscuit etc - it tasted good for about two bites, then it just didn't taste right at all. I'm too used to home cooking, i guess!

[L0oniX]

13. ...and I WAS only concerned about chicken butt being mixed in.

[arely staircase]

15. the wendy's chicken berry salads are delicious

and seem pretty healthy - but it isn't fried chicken.

[undeterred]

16. Gross in every way.

[Mosby]

20. no way it's only 50% chicken

As of October 9, 2010, the ingredients within the United States are as follows: Chicken, water, salt, sodium phosphates. Battered and breaded with bleached wheat flour, water, wheat flour, modified food starch, salt, spices, wheat gluten, paprika, dextrose (sugar), yeast, garlic powder, rosemary, 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. Fried in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with TBHQ and citric acid). Dimethylpolysiloxane is added as an antifoaming agent.[4] McDonald's ingredients can vary outside of the US.

As of October 9, 2010, dimethylpolysiloxane and Tert-Butylhydroquinone (TBHQ) are listed as ingredients in the McNuggets cooking process.[4] According to Lisa McComb, a media relations representative for McDonald's, dimethylpolysiloxane is used as a matter of safety to keep the frying oil from foaming. The chemical is a form of silicone also used in cosmetics and Silly Putty. A review of animal studies by the World Health Organization found no adverse health effects associated with dimethylpolysiloxane. TBHQ is a common preservative for vegetable oils, cereals, nuts, cookies, chips, and animal fats,[11] found in other foods like Girl Scout Cookies[12] and Quaker Chewy Granola Bars.[13] The U.S. Food and Drug Administration sets an upper limit of 0.02% (0.0002) of the oil or fat content in foods,[14] which like other foods, applies to the oil used in McNuggets. Effective use of TBHQ is 1 gram per 5000 grams of cooking oil (1 gram per 11 pounds of cooking oil).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_McNuggets

I really don't eat much at Mcdonalds anymore but I will eat at Arby's, Wendy's and Whataburger occasionally. I LOVE the Whataburger jr.

What irks me is these constant attacks on fast food all the while ignoring Chili's, Applebee's Red Robin, Mimi's etc. The vast majority of the food these chains sell is horrible, insanely high calorie, fat and sodium. Check this one item out, and consider that a whopper or 1/4 pounder has around 558 calories: A Chili's Jalapeno smokehouse burger has 1670 calories, 106 grams of fat and 4950 mg of sodium. That's almost three days worth of salt and these numbers are just for the burger.

[DainBramaged]

21. natural flavor (plant source)

The chicken don't taste like nuthin without 'plant resourced favoring'

Holy shit

[Mosby]

22. Believe it or not I have only eaten mcnuggets one time in my life

just a few years ago. I didn't like the texture and thought they didn't have much flavor.

The nuggets at Wendy's are a lot better.

I"m trying to cut out processed meats in my diet altogether because none of it is good for you, this includes the sandwich meats you get at the grocery store.

Me and my wife have been eating ground turkey as a substitute for beef, it tastes really good but it's a shame that most all of it is mechanically separated. Probably done just to save a couple pennies.

[DainBramaged]

23. Back in the 90's they didn't contain as much shit

After reading this I will never eat there again

[alp227]

24. " ignoring Chili's, Applebee's Red Robin, Mimi's etc."

I guess the "free market" thinks those chains are more upscale than the lowly Mickey D's and thus enable them to serve any crap they choose.

[SoCalDem]

26. Chicken is so easy to prepare

Our favorite is just de-boned chicken breasts ( I de-bone them), sauteed in olive oil..sprinkled with a dab of Salad Supreme.. I always cook a bunch since I then make the world's best chicken salad with the left overs.. I can get 12 meals (easy) out of a package of bone in chicken breasts..
The packages I buy here have 8 or 9 large breasts per package

I save the bones & make chicken & homemade dumplings
We each (2 of us) have a chicken breast on rice on day one
I diagonally slice a cold chicken breast apiece for chef salad the next day
I make chicken salad from 2 breasts (makes quite a bit when I add the celery & onion)
I get about 6 sandwiches & 2 tomatoes stuffed with the chicken salad

The soup is usually shared with my friend since I cannot make a small pot of soup..

One large package of chicken breasts , some carrots some onions & celery.. a few eggs & some flour for the dumplings & you have MANY nutritious meals... all for a lot less than a few orders of fast food chicken-anything..

[matt819]

27. Another Resource

Yes, this is certainly disgusting.

But wait. It only gets worse.

Take a look at "Pandora's Lunchbox," a book about processed food, including a bit of history, a walk through the food industry trade shows, and more.

[FarCenter]

28. tert-Butylhydroquinone has nothing to do with butane or lighter fluid.

tert-Butylhydroquinone (TBHQ, tertiary butylhydroquinone) is an aromatic organic compound which is a type of phenol. It is a derivative of hydroquinone, substituted with tert-butyl group.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tert-Butylhydroquinone

[flvegan]

29. McShit.

The fact that they still darken the doorstep of the Fortune 100 is truly a testament to just how oblivious we are as to how to fuel our bodies.*



*Recognizes that the every-now-and-then splurge, or convenience of a Happy Meal on a day rushing around won't kill anyone.