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.”
Nothing like the smell of a subway in August.
The moral of the story: Buy chicken meat at the store, go home and cook it. You’ll know how clean the kitchen was, you will know what’s in it, you might have left-overs for lunch, and you’ll save a lot of money this year.
And if you do go out to lunch, consider a small family restaurant that gives a damn about what they do, and serving you well.
Soy and soy protein is a common allergen and I think must be disclosed, at least it is flagged on ingredients labels.
Something is not right with the story, and the company’s statements seem to be accurate. If they were selling something that was 50% soy it would be in their best interest to disclose that.
Comments are hilarious: “I’m missing my cat.”
I retired from the Poultry Industry (Engineering not Production) and several of the plants I did projects at produced Subway product. The patty was a formed and charmarked product (from a Formax machine) but was all chicken. Believe it or not Poultry Companies don’t make money selling soy, they make money selling chicken! I have to label the “Lab Report” bogus fake news until proven otherwise!
Ingredients: Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast with Rib Meat, Water, Salt, Sugar, Garlic Powder, Lemon Juice Concentrate, Honey, Onion Powder, Natural Flavor, Dried Vinegar, Rice Starch. Grilled with Clarified Butter (Pasteurized Milk [Butterfat]).
Ingredients: Wheat Flour or Enriched Flour (Wheat Flour or Bleached Wheat Flour, Niacin, Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Malted Barley Flour, Water, Sugar, Yeast, Palm Oil, Wheat Gluten, Dextrose, Salt, Contains 2% or Less: Natural Flavors, Corn Flour, Soybean Oil, Calcium Sulfate, Mono- and Diglycerides, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Monocalcium Phosphate, Ascorbic Acid, Calcium Peroxide, Enzymes, Calcium Propionate (Preservative), Vegetable Proteins (Pea, Potato, Rice), Sunflower Oil, Turmeric, Paprika, Corn Starch, Wheat Starch, Acetic Acid.
Ingredients: Tomato.
Ingredients: Lettuce.
Ingredients: Soybean Oil, Water, Garlic, Sugar, Salt, Yeast Extract, Natural Flavor, Apple Cider Vinegar, Onion, Potato Protein, Lemon Juice Concentrate, Dried Honey, Citric Acid, Spices, Tamarind, Dried Vinegar.
Ingredients: Salt, Pepper.
Food companies should list each spice.
I do not intend to be harsh. It is real for you. But we cannot build the world around you. But you can build your own world.
....and even then you can’t be sure................
Fast Food is usually neither..............
Neither fish nor fowl...................
The joke at the time “what’s hopping at McDonalds?”
Been eating at the Scottish restaurant again?
No wonder there are so many boys about with boobs.
You can get kangaroo meat at Sprout's supermarkets. It apparently appeals to dieters because it's low in cholesterol, but it tastes like USDA "Good"-grade beef, the lowest grade available in supermarkets.
... and what’s NOT in it :)
Having eaten at Subway Canada many times, i can confirm that the pseudo chicken is a rubbery and tasteless product that is full of salt. Subway knows that if you cover it with enough veggies, cheese and sauce nobody will really know the difference. What used to be a decent “steak and cheese” sandwich has already become inferior. Instead of actual slices of steak it looks like a mush “pulled beef” mess.
I can see a class action lawsuit being filed over this, which will do little for the consumer but wonders for lawyers. They’ll reach a settlement where Subway will agree to be more truthful in describing the “chicken” content, will agree to a time-limited price reduction on the chicken sandwiches, and where the class action lawyers will get millions in fees.
“they’re held together by fusion.”
Jazz Fusion?
I like the Artisan chicken, but have to add a slathering of Miracle Whip. The chicken is clearly 100% just that. No need to be leery of crusts or additions while grinding.
Q:
Why did the chicken cross the road?
A:
So, it could bathe in a bath of estrogen laced soy and other natural and artificial ingredients.
“The sandwich chain refuted the results of the DNA test in a released statement...”
Another reporter who doesn’t know the meaning of “refuted.”
Go check out your tuna.. it’s probably mostly soy. There is only one or two tunas that are non-soy. I call the soy tuna Barbie tuna because it’s just nasty fillers.
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