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To: dragnet2
"Most people don’t realize it, but there is no chicken in McDonald’s Chicken McNugget products."

reference?

http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/food/full_menu/chicken/mcnuggets.html

"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. CONTAINS: WHEAT AND MILK"

30 posted on 08/10/2010 9:23:18 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ("There are consequences for being wrong" - Burt Rutan)
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To: BwanaNdege
Dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming agent

The anti-foaming agents are added in an effort to keep the chicken flavored batter from bloating or swelling too much during processing. This is done just prior to spraying the McNuggets with the chicken juice.

40 posted on 08/10/2010 9:53:34 AM PDT by dragnet2
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To: BwanaNdege

white boneless chicken is the first (primary) ingredient.
what am I missing here?


43 posted on 08/10/2010 10:10:34 AM PDT by nascarnation
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