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DNA Test Shows Subway’s Oven-Roasted Chicken Is Only 50 Percent Chicken
losangeles.cbslocal.com ^ | February 27, 2017 11:24 PM | Staff

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.”


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: chat; chicken; fastfoodchicken; food; soychicken; soyprotein; subway; subwaychicken
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To: Red Badger

vegetarians halfway happy?


21 posted on 02/28/2017 7:17:56 AM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: Red Badger

Eat Fresh............ Soy Protien!


22 posted on 02/28/2017 7:18:31 AM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: beebuster2000

It’s a play on words..................


23 posted on 02/28/2017 7:18:42 AM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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To: Red Badger

And now I know why I have seizures after eating Subway...

soy protein is one of my triggers,

maybe I have a lawsuit?

https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/soy-alert/soy-and-seizures-bad-news-for-the-soy-industry/


24 posted on 02/28/2017 7:19:01 AM PST by EBH (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Red Badger

Over 40% soy? Sounds like dog food.


25 posted on 02/28/2017 7:19:04 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: Red Badger

As someone who has worked with Subway and many of their suppliers over the years, I am not surprised by this at all. There are few organizations in the food industry that are as driven to cut costs as Subway. Innovation at Subway is run almost exclusively by the desire to save money. When that is the driving force for everything you do, it will bring these kinds of results.


26 posted on 02/28/2017 7:19:21 AM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Red Badger

27 posted on 02/28/2017 7:19:30 AM PST by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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To: tennmountainman

Soy Protein.


28 posted on 02/28/2017 7:19:55 AM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: bigbob

Maybe it’s for meat eaters trying to become vegans...................


29 posted on 02/28/2017 7:20:15 AM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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To: DownInFlames

Lawsuit is right!

Undisclosed soy content is actually dangerous and potentially deadly if it triggers a status seizure leading to death.


30 posted on 02/28/2017 7:20:52 AM PST by EBH (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Red Badger

Foul fowl?


31 posted on 02/28/2017 7:21:01 AM PST by Don Corleone (.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: G Larry

...they’re held together by fusion.

And soy.


32 posted on 02/28/2017 7:22:35 AM PST by null and void (Drain the swamp! Get rid of the mosque-itoes!)
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To: Red Badger

I would sue the laboratory

Make them reveal their exact methods for public, scientific scrutiny.

Their attitudes are often just like the media - they can make extremely damaging, scandalous, false claims, yet feel they are immune to consequences.

Was involved in a very similar case - had a lab, and lazy press, make false claims about a customer’s product, which were closely involved in. Their results were bullish** and we had to fight like mad for months just to get them to admit the claims may not have been 100% true. By then of course, the lie was out, and no one cares about a retraction.


33 posted on 02/28/2017 7:23:05 AM PST by PGR88
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To: EBH

Have at it!...........they could have killed you!..............


34 posted on 02/28/2017 7:24:55 AM PST by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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To: Red Badger

Eat at home.

That way you know what’s in it.


35 posted on 02/28/2017 7:24:56 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Red Badger
If it has ingredients that can cause allergic reactions, soy, milk products, nuts etc. it must list them.

Some people are allergic to various spices. Food companies should list each spice.

If I eat more than a trace of black pepper, I have trouble breathing and talking. Plus, I scare everyone around me because they think I am about to go into anaphylactic shock (I never do). Every ingredient should be listed, not just the most common allergens.

36 posted on 02/28/2017 7:25:48 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Red Badger

30 years ago McDonalds on the west coast was using kangaroo meat for its hamburgers. The joke at the time “what hopping at McDonalds?”


37 posted on 02/28/2017 7:25:58 AM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: Right Brother

and should protesters of chicken raising ranches only be 50 % upset ?


38 posted on 02/28/2017 7:26:05 AM PST by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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To: G Larry

But parts of what?


39 posted on 02/28/2017 7:26:29 AM PST by Farmer Dean ("Do you want me to shoot,I'm rested.")
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To: null and void
"......they’re held together by fusion."

Held together because the bacteria are holding hands... :)

40 posted on 02/28/2017 7:26:33 AM PST by SparkyBass
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