Researchers Reveal What’s Really In Fast Food Chicken Nuggets

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Researchers tried to find out what was in chicken nuggets from two fast food chains, with disconcerting results.

 

The researchers, from University of Mississippi Medical Center and Baptist Medical Center, both in Jackson, Miss., examined nuggets from two unnamed national fast food chains, according to the study published in the American Journal of Medicine.

The nugget from the first restaurant “was composed of approximately 50% skeletal muscle, with the remainder composed primarily of fat, with some blood vessels and nerve present,” according to lead author Dr. Richard D. deShazo of the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

The second nugget contained “approximately 50% skeletal muscle, with the remainder composed primarily of fat, with some blood vessels and nerve present.”

Skeletal, or striated muscle, is what most people imagine when they think of chicken meat. It “was not the predominate component in either nugget,” the study noted.

The conclusion?

“Chicken meat was not the predominate component in either nugget,” the researchers write. “Fat was present in equal or greater quantities along with epithelium, bone, nerve, and connective tissue.”

McDonald’s chicken McNuggets are made from 100% breast meat chicken, according to its website.

source: businessinsider

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