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04-22-2014, 01:39 PM #1
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McDonald's Hamburgers
Meat filler: You mean Pink Slime!!!!!
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04-22-2014, 07:56 PM #2
- McDonald's Drops 'Pink Slime' From Hamburger Meat ...
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Feb 1, 2012 - For years, the world's leading fast-food chain used a "pink slime" as beef filler for its burgers in the U.S. After a campaign by celebrity chef Jamie ...
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04-24-2014, 01:16 PM #4
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McDonald’s to Add Lab-Grown ‘Chicken’ McNuggets to its Menu
By DNA | April 24, 2014 2 Comments
(inhabitat) McDonald‘s just announced it will be the first fast food restaurant in the United States to add lab-grown meat to its menu. Following the success of Sergey Brin’s lab-grown burger experiment in London last year, McDonald’s says they will ‘grow’ their own chicken McNuggets in special laboratories across New Jersey. The move is expected to reduce the number of real chickens needed to supply the company’s 35,000 outlets across the globe.
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Don Thompson, president and chief executive officer of McDonald’s, cited environmental concerns behind the company’s pledge to add lab-grown chicken McNuggets to their menu.
“With climate change raging out of control, we decided that it doesn’t make sense to use water and feed to keep real chickens alive anymore,” Thompson said. “Plus, animal rights activists have been on our case for a long time about how chickens are treated. This should put their concerns to rest.”
Indeed, Ingrid E. Newkirk, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) celebrated the announcement.
“Although we think it’s bizarre that future McNuggets will be grown in a lab, we’re relieved to know that chickens no longer have to be sacrificed to feed McDonald’s customers,” Newkirk said. “But we won’t truly be happy until the company stops selling real beef burgers too, since cows suffer in disgusting feedlots across the United States.”
Before they can even think about growing fake beef burgers, McDonald’s must first master the art of making McNuggets grown in a lab taste like chicken. The company is working with scientists to grow the nuggets using stem cells from living chickens.
“We take stem cells from real chickens and add them to lab grown fat,” Thompson revealed. “We can’t tell you the rest of the ingredients that we use to make the McNuggets taste good, but we are here to assure loyal customers that they will be a lot worse than pink slime or that yoga mat stuff that Subway used.”
In response to concerns that people might be grossed out and stop eating at McDonald’s, Thompson said the American public doesn’t care what they eat as long as it’s cheap. In fact, he said, by 2025 every single item on the chain’s menu will be produced in a lab. Yum.
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Okay maybe they dropped pink slime but what is in the 85% filler???? It is still only 15% meat!! Washed with ammonia !!!Last edited by kathyet2; 04-24-2014 at 01:19 PM.
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05-02-2014, 12:46 PM #5
Chicken Nugget Ingredients From 4 Fast Food Chains
By SUSANNA KIM 22 hours ago Good Morning America
Taco Bell has received a lot of attention for a reader-friendly ingredient explainer on its website.
It turns out many of the ingredients used in Taco Bell's beef are also used in other fast food chains' chicken nuggets for similar purposes, according to Derek Lowe, a blogger and chemist with a Ph.D. from Duke University.
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Bananas, for example, smell the way that they do largely because of isoamyl acetate, Lowe said.
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Here are some of the ingredients for chicken nuggets or tenders from four fast food chains.
McDonald's 4-Piece Chicken McNuggets:
1. Seasoning
McDonald's says its seasoning contains autolyzed yeast extract.
Lowe told ABC News that yeast extracts are "sheer umami," or a savory flavor, and not harmful.
"It's a way of adding MSG and getting the same savory flavor boost without adding MSG per se, in the same way that the 'all-natural no nitrite added' bacon that you see in stores always has celery powder or juice added to it. Celery is full of nitrite, plenty enough to cure meat, but when you do it that way you don't have to say that you added nitrite. Just celery juice," Lowe said.
2. Sodium phosphates
Sodium phosphate and similar ingredients treat meat during processing, Lowe said.
"Raw protein foods like meat and fish treated with phosphate hold water better as they cook, which means that there's less shrinkage, the end-product has more juice and has less chance of being tough," Lowe said.
3. Batter and breading
McDonald's says its leavening agent contains sodium acid pyrophosphate, an edible phosphoric salt that is leavening used for baking, such as baking powder.
4. "Prepared in vegetable oil"
McDonald's vegetable oil includes hydrogenated soybean oil with TBHQ, or tertiary butylhydroquinone, a preservative. It also contains citric acid, which is "added to preserve freshness," the company states on its website. It's used in candy and other foods for flavor. Taco Bell says it uses a "small percentage" in its beef recipe to "add brighter flavor."
McDonald's did not respond to a request for comment.
Wendy's Crispy Chicken Nuggets:
1. Sodium phosphates
"Grocery-store scallops are almost always phosphate-treated," Lowe explained, "which is why some cookbooks tell you to look for untreated ones if you're going to sauté or sear them," adding "the treated ones are just too moist to perform well."
2. Battered and breaded with...
Xanthan gum, which is an emulsifier or thickening additive to some foods.
3. Vegetable oil
Wendy's vegetable oil includes citric acid (called a preservative on Wendy's site) and dimethylpolysiloxane (described by Wendy's as an anti-foaming agent).
Wendy's spokesman Bob Bertini said, "We are proud of the quality food we serve, and provide complete ingredient and nutrition information for all of our menu items on our website. We do this so that consumers can make informed decisions regarding their personal dietary needs."
KFC's Extra Crispy Tenders:
1. Seasoning KFC says its "chicken flavor" includes maltodextrin, which is sometimes a sweetener.
2. Sodium Phosphate
3. Breaded With...
Monosodium glutamate (or MSG), maltodextrin, with no more than 2 percent calcium silicate added as an anti-caking agent, KFC says.
KFC spokesman Rick Maynard told ABCNews.com, “We buy our quality chicken from trusted companies and our restaurants receive fresh poultry deliveries throughout the week, where it is prepared by certified cooks. To ensure our customers have all the information they need, we provide complete nutrition and ingredient information on KFC.com.”
Burger King Chicken Nuggets (fried):
1. Seasoning
Includes maltodextrin (also used in Taco Bell beef as a sweetener), yeast extract, propylene glycol, which the CDC says is sometimes used as a solvent for food colors and flavors.
2. Sodium phosphates
3. Dextrose
A sweetener that is found in sometimes found in packaged desserts.
In response to a request for comment, a Burger King spokesperson said the chain's ingredients are safe and referred ABC News to the ingredients list on its website.
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