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.”
Yep - soy's a whole lot cheaper.
OK, I’ll check for you:
Trent University Wildlife Forensic DNA Laboratory
I don’t trust the MSM as much as you do I guess, and like to see more than the MSM as a source.
The only tuna I have found tastes like tuna used to and isn’t mushy is WalMarts store brand.Greater Value I think. All the name brands are nothing like tuna used to taste.
Protein is protein....
Parts is pieces parts...............
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is a government entity...............
Yea, tuna just doesn’t taste right since they all went ‘dolphin free’...................
Getting a 12 inch.
Jared wishes he was only getting 6”.
[[So what comprises the other 50%?]]
Haven’t you noticed a decrease in feral cat populations lately?
[[Do not treat any fast food as genuine.]]
Exactly, just treat it as yummy- people have lived on fast food for many decades now and we’re living longer than ever- as a whole- on average- Used to be we only lived on average to 35 years old- so anything over 35 is a gift- and we should celebrate it by eating yummy fast psuedofood
Excellent.
Win.
Soy is a pretty big allergen. That is something that needs to be disclosed.
“Some people are allergic to various spices. Food companies should list each spice.”
My youngest is allergic to rosemary. I just want to cry every time I see “spices” listed as an ingredient.
“It’s what Florida Agricultural Department
inspection uses for determining the type of fish being sold at various places it inspects.....”
yep, DNA works great for determining the species of an indivdual piece of flesh and even works well for qualitative analysis of a mixture, that is, identifying individual components in a mixture of flesh, but too my knowledge, there is no proven ability for DNA to be used for quantitative analysis, that is, what percentage of each component is in a mixture.
Jared switched to pizza.
Countries more advanced than us have no problem listing every single spice in their dry foods.
India, for instance.
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