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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

Los Angeles: in other news, the Animal Control Board reports seeing far fewer stray dogs on the streets....


61 posted on 02/28/2017 7:58:04 AM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: 9422WMR

LOL


62 posted on 02/28/2017 7:58:19 AM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: Red Badger

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Subway patrons just love to eat crow!
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63 posted on 02/28/2017 8:00:07 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: relictele

If you buy a whole turkey at the grocery store, it’s likely to be 85-90% turkey, because they inject it with a brine to make it juicier. Chicken is often brined, too.


64 posted on 02/28/2017 8:00:53 AM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: Arthur McGowan

They didn’t ‘refute’ anything.................


65 posted on 02/28/2017 8:04:35 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: Zarro

66 posted on 02/28/2017 8:06:54 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: editor-surveyor

They would be lucky if it were!................


67 posted on 02/28/2017 8:07:37 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

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....


I think this could very well be just a hit piece when I see the source of your post, then the lack of identifying their source other than some “Canadian study”.

This is shoddy journalism.


68 posted on 02/28/2017 8:09:03 AM PST by Blue Collar Christian (We Arizonans need to get rid of McCain as all of us pray for Trump.)
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To: Blue Collar Christian
Subway was among five fast-food restaurants, whose chicken the Canadian Broadcast Corporation had tested.
69 posted on 02/28/2017 8:10:25 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: PeterPrinciple

Oh, believe me, I do not go out much. It can be very difficult to find a restaurant where the food won’t make me seriously ill. More specifically, the challenge is when people from work want to go to a restaurant, and the restaurant everyone decides on has almost nothing on the menu that is safe to eat.

My problem is mostly with products at the grocery store, things like salad dressings, seasoning mixes, and so forth. I read the ingredient list of everything, but black pepper is rarely listed separately.


70 posted on 02/28/2017 8:14:40 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

From “5 Easy Pieces”, Jack Nicholson:

Jack: “I’d just like some toast, please.”
Waitress: “That’s no on the menu; please order something that is on the menu.”
Jack: “I’d like a chicken sandwich on toast; hold the chicken.”
Waitress: “How am I supposed to hold the chicken?”
Jack: “Try holding it between your knees.”


71 posted on 02/28/2017 8:16:15 AM PST by Migraine (Diversity is great- -- until it happens to YOU.)
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To: Red Badger

Soylent Green.


72 posted on 02/28/2017 8:17:20 AM PST by YourAdHere (Hillary 2020!)
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To: Migraine

I remember that!
Hilarious!..........


73 posted on 02/28/2017 8:17:42 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

Regardless of what’s actually in or not in the processed meats Subway uses in their sandwiches, I can’t imagine that DNA testing is a legitimate means for quantitative analysis of a food mixture.


74 posted on 02/28/2017 8:23:52 AM PST by catnipman ( Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Right Brother

#3 Varmint


75 posted on 02/28/2017 8:27:29 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: catnipman

It’s what Florida Agricultural Department
inspection uses for determining the type of fish being sold at various places it inspects......


76 posted on 02/28/2017 8:29:21 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

Subway, just like today’s practicing politician, has already denied this as true.. which means it probably is true.


77 posted on 02/28/2017 8:32:09 AM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: Right Brother
So what comprises the other 50%?

Don't know and at this point I don't care. Last week's chicken sandwich @ Subway is the last one I'll be having.

I'm getting sick to my stomach. "Eat Fresh" is Subway's motto, what I want to know is .... Fresh WHAT?!

78 posted on 02/28/2017 8:33:54 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: VideoDoctor

Their suppliers could be doing it without the company’s knowledge.................


79 posted on 02/28/2017 8:35:34 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: beebuster2000

Sub sandwiches in the shape of submarines of old. They just could not call it Subs. LOL


80 posted on 02/28/2017 8:35:46 AM PST by madison10
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