Posted on 02/28/2017 7:07:32 AM PST by Red Badger
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — If you think that chicken sandwich you ordered at Subway did not fully taste like fowl, you may have been right.
According to a Canadian study, a DNA test showed only half of Subway’s oven-roasted patty is made with real chicken.
Subway was among five fast-food restaurants, whose chicken the Canadian Broadcast Corporation had tested.
The results showed the Oven Roasted Chicken patties averaged 53.6 percent chicken DNA while the Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki strips came in at 42.8 percent.
The sandwich chain refuted the results of the DNA test in a released statement:
“SUBWAY Canada cannot confirm the veracity of the results of the lab testing you had conducted. However, we are concerned by the alleged findings you cite with respect to the proportion of soy content. Our chicken strips and oven roasted chicken contain 1% or less of soy protein. We use this ingredient in these products as a means to help stabilize the texture and moisture. All of our chicken items are made from 100% white meat chicken which is marinated, oven roasted and grilled. We tested our chicken products recently for nutritional and quality attributes and found it met our food quality standards. We will look into this again with our supplier to ensure that the chicken is meeting the high standard we set for all of our menu items and ingredients.”
In case you wondered what the rest of the patties and chicken strips are made of: It’s soy.
The same test was done on the chicken Wendy’s and McDonald’s serve.
Wendy’s grilled chicken sandwich averaged 88.5 percent chicken, while McDonald’s Grilled Country Chicken averaged 84.9 percent, according to the findings.
Wendy’s response: “Wendy’s Grilled Chicken Sandwich is a whole muscle chicken breast fillet; not reformed or restructured. In addition, we use only 100% Canadian chicken in Canada. For our grilled chicken sandwich and other grilled chicken products (salads, wraps, etc.) we use a juicy, all-white meat chicken breast fillet, marinated in a blend of herbs. We do not provide ingredient percentages as we consider that information to be proprietary.”
McDonald’s response: “Our grilled chicken sandwich is made with 100% seasoned chicken breast. The chicken breast is (a single piece) trimmed for size to fit the sandwich. We don’t release the percentage of each ingredient for competitive reasons, but on the nutrition centre people can see that our grilled chicken includes seasoning and other ingredients, just like at home.”
Well if you only get the 6 inch does that make it 100% or 25%. This is all so confusing. Where’s jared. Oh never mind.
So what comprises the other 50%?
When I ever went to Subway, I always thought the meat was some sort of Turkey, spiced, treated or stained to look like the meat you really wanted.
Fake chicken kind of taste like chicken..
If a chicken sandwich was all chicken then why would there be any percentages to worry about, proprietary or otherwise?
The news might turn Subway into a has-bean...
I can’t even begin to think of the total amount of lawsuits that will be generated not including criminal fraud.
Do not treat any fast food as genuine. It tastes good but its no what we would call food in the trqaditonal sense.
I have the occasional burger, but tend to limit my intake of the stuff to a couple of times a month.
But my local greasy spoon restaurant serves genuine food, burgers, sandwiches and steak, with beer. The junk food guys cannot compete with that!
soy
Soylent chicken?
Contains 50% Giddy up? No wait that was Burger Kind.
i never understood why they named the company after a New York City Transit line. That made no sense. And not terribly appetizing either.
Parts is parts....
“So what comprises the other 50%?”
7th Paragraph.
I eat at Subway occasionally. The chicken patty sub is one to avoid. Looks nasty.
Can you say”processed foods”?
I missed that on my quick read of the article. Thanks.
It’s diversity chicken. Everyone knows that diversity makes everything better. Besides who wants to eat white privilege chicken anyway. Spice it up with more diversity and then add more diversity on the bun. Yum!
Food that you buy in the grocery store must have, by law, all ingredients listed in order of weight. Different common spices and herbs are just listed as spices/herbs without naming them.
If it has ingredients that can cause allergic reactions, soy, milk products, nuts etc. it must list them.
AFAIK, food that you buy at a restaurant chain does not......
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