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Old 03-23-2007, 02:22 PM #1
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What exactly is in a Chicken McNugget
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The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan is a fascinating book that details the changing eating habits of Americans. I can't recommend it highly enough. It explains how, over the last 30 years, we have become a nation that eats vast quantities of corn – much more so than Mexicans, the original "corn people."

Most folks assume that a chicken nugget is just a piece of fried chicken, right? Wrong! Did you know, for example, that a McDonald’s Chicken McNugget is 56% corn?

What else is in a McDonald's Chicken McNugget? Besides corn, and to a lesser extent, chicken, The Omnivore's Dilemma describes all of the thirty-eight ingredients that make up a McNugget – one of which I'll bet you'll never guess. During this part of the book, the author has just ordered a meal from McDonald’s with his family and taken one of the flyers available at McDonald’s called "A Full Serving of Nutrition Facts: Choose the Best Meal for You." These two paragraphs are taken directly from The Omnivore’s Dilemma:

“The ingredients listed in the flyer suggest a lot of thought goes into a nugget, that and a lot of corn. Of the thirty-eight ingredients it takes to make a McNugget, I counted thirteen that can be derived from corn: the corn-fed chicken itself; modified cornstarch (to bind the pulverized chicken meat); mono-, tri-, and diglycerides (emulsifiers, which keep the fats and water from separating); dextrose; lecithin (another emulsifier); chicken broth (to restore some of the flavor that processing leeches out); yellow corn flour and more modified cornstarch (for the batter); cornstarch (a filler); vegetable shortening; partially hydrogenated corn oil; and citric acid as a preservative. A couple of other plants take part in the nugget: There's some wheat in the batter, and on any given day the hydrogenated oil could come from soybeans, canola, or cotton rather than corn, depending on the market price and availability.

According to the handout, McNuggets also contain several completely synthetic ingredients, quasiedible substances that ultimately come not from a corn or soybean field but form a petroleum refinery or chemical plant. These chemicals are what make modern processed food possible, by keeping the organic materials in them from going bad or looking strange after months in the freezer or on the road. Listed first are the "leavening agents": sodium aluminum phosphate, mono-calcium phosphate, sodium acid pyrophosphate, and calcium lactate. These are antioxidants added to keep the various animal and vegetable fats involved in a nugget from turning rancid. Then there are "anti-foaming agents" like dimethylpolysiloxene, added to the cooking oil to keep the starches from binding to air molecules, so as to produce foam during the fry. The problem is evidently grave enough to warrant adding a toxic chemical to the food: According to the Handbook of Food Additives, dimethylpolysiloxene is a suspected carcinogen and an established mutagen, tumorigen, and reproductive effector; it's also flammable. But perhaps the most alarming ingredient in a Chicken McNugget is tertiary butylhydroquinone, or TBHQ, an antioxidant derived from petroleum that is either sprayed directly on the nugget or the inside of the box it comes in to "help preserve freshness." According to A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives, TBHQ is a form of butane (i.e. lighter fluid) the FDA allows processors to use sparingly in our food: It can comprise no more than 0.02 percent of the oil in a nugget. Which is probably just as well, considering that ingesting a single gram of TBHQ can cause "nausea, vomiting, ringing in the ears, delirium, a sense of suffocation, and collapse." Ingesting five grams of TBHQ can kill.”



Bet you never thought that was in your chicken McNuggets!

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Old 03-23-2007, 02:29 PM #2
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Wow, an explanation after all these years why Chicken McNuggets give me diarrhea.
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mcdonalds nuggets are so good
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I posted vaguely about this corn guy before. This is precisely why we shouldn't subsidize farmers.
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And precisely why we shouldn't eat at McDonalds.
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I rarely eat there anymore.
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mcnuggets are good with honey
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And precisely why we shouldn't eat at McDonalds.

Agreed, wonder whats in their other foods.
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I wanna light a nugget on fire.
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Do you guys realize we probably ingest more Gold in a year than the TBHQ in all the nuggets served everyday? This is why I hate these OMG POISONS IN OUR FOOD things. Notice how it says .02% of the OIL in a McNugget. A single McNugget is probably around 10 g. 65% of that is water. 25% is solid mass. That leaves 10% oil. 1 g of oil equates to .0002 g of TBHQ. That means you would have to eat 5000 McNuggets to even START to feel the effect of it. 5000 McNuggets is a little over 208,333 Calories. No one could eat that much in one day, so the liver could easily take care off what little there is.

Seriously, if you guys are worried about some insignificant amount of poisonous things in McDonald's food rather than the sheer Calories you're eating, I'd stop drinking the ethanol most of you are drinking everyday.
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Do you guys realize we probably ingest more Gold in a year than the TBHQ in all the nuggets served everyday? This is why I hate these OMG POISONS IN OUR FOOD things. Notice how it says .02% of the OIL in a McNugget. A single McNugget is probably around 10 g. 65% of that is water. 25% is solid mass. That leaves 10% oil. 1 g of oil equates to .0002 g of TBHQ. That means you would have to eat 5000 McNuggets to even START to feel the effect of it. 5000 McNuggets is a little over 208,333 Calories. No one could eat that much in one day, so the liver could easily take care off what little there is.

Seriously, if you guys are worried about some insignificant amount of poisonous things in McDonald's food rather than the sheer Calories you're eating, I'd stop drinking the ethanol most of you are drinking everyday.
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Wow, an explanation after all these years why Chicken McNuggets give me diarrhea.

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That's called grease and ingesting a dangerous amount of Calories at once. Some bodies just can't handle it. Mine can (which is why I'm fat )
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Yeah, all fast food usually gives me diarrhea. But like you said, I think it's the shear amount of food I eat when I go there. The only place that's never given my diarrhea is Del Taco, but I still eat 5 half pound burritos, 2 crispy tacos, and a spicy jack quesadilla every time I go
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Didn't read; don't care. McNuggets are delicious. Especially with Hot Mustard.
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Aw damnit, now I want to try that.
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It's ****ing delicious.
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It's that BBQ sauce they have that really makes the Nuggets
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I've always preferred the Sweet and Sour sauce, especially for their fries.
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Pretty sure it's the spineless chickens they breed that make the Nuggets.
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