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.”
Los Angeles: in other news, the Animal Control Board reports seeing far fewer stray dogs on the streets....
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Subway patrons just love to eat crow!
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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.
They didn’t ‘refute’ anything.................
They would be lucky if it were!................
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.
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.
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.”
Soylent Green.
I remember that!
Hilarious!..........
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.
#3 Varmint
It’s what Florida Agricultural Department
inspection uses for determining the type of fish being sold at various places it inspects......
Subway, just like today’s practicing politician, has already denied this as true.. which means it probably is true.
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?!
Their suppliers could be doing it without the company’s knowledge.................
Sub sandwiches in the shape of submarines of old. They just could not call it Subs. LOL
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