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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: beebuster2000
i never understood why they named the company after a New York City Transit line. That made no sense. And not terribly appetizing either.

Nothing like the smell of a subway in August.

41 posted on 02/28/2017 7:28:05 AM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: Red Badger

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.


42 posted on 02/28/2017 7:28:56 AM PST by Made In The USA (Rap music: Soundtrack of the retarded.)
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To: Red Badger

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.


43 posted on 02/28/2017 7:30:08 AM PST by DBrow
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To: Red Badger

Comments are hilarious: “I’m missing my cat.”


44 posted on 02/28/2017 7:31:34 AM PST by Zarro (Oh, we don't call them the "MSM" any longer; they are now the "Basket of Detestables")
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To: Red Badger

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!


45 posted on 02/28/2017 7:32:12 AM PST by Dracomeister (The older I get the less I care about what other people think.)
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To: Red Badger
Shamelessly lifted from the McDonald's site:

ARTISAN GRILLED CHICKEN FILET

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]).

Contains: MILK.

ARTISAN ROLL

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.

Contains: WHEAT.

TOMATO SLICE

Ingredients: Tomato.

LETTUCE

Ingredients: Lettuce.

HERB VINAIGRETTE SAUCE

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.

GRILL SEASONING

Ingredients: Salt, Pepper.


46 posted on 02/28/2017 7:32:59 AM PST by DBrow
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To: exDemMom

Food companies should list each spice.


Or maybe one could eat at home. The world cannot accommodate everyone in the world.

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.


47 posted on 02/28/2017 7:33:49 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: metmom

....and even then you can’t be sure................


48 posted on 02/28/2017 7:34:23 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: Candor7

Fast Food is usually neither..............


49 posted on 02/28/2017 7:35:03 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: Don Corleone

Neither fish nor fowl...................


50 posted on 02/28/2017 7:36:23 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: Maine Mariner

The joke at the time “what’s hopping at McDonalds?”

Been eating at the Scottish restaurant again?


51 posted on 02/28/2017 7:44:37 AM PST by 9422WMR (President Trump, I like the sound of that!)
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To: Red Badger

No wonder there are so many boys about with boobs.


52 posted on 02/28/2017 7:44:47 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Maine Mariner
30 years ago McDonalds on the west coast was using kangaroo meat for its hamburgers.

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.

53 posted on 02/28/2017 7:46:29 AM PST by Rufii
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To: metmom

... and what’s NOT in it :)


54 posted on 02/28/2017 7:46:48 AM PST by owlbaby58
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To: Red Badger

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.


55 posted on 02/28/2017 7:47:25 AM PST by littleharbour
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To: null and void

“they’re held together by fusion.”

Jazz Fusion?


56 posted on 02/28/2017 7:48:40 AM PST by Leep (Cyclops Network News (CNN). The Most Trusted Source Of Fake News.)
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To: DBrow

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.


57 posted on 02/28/2017 7:50:10 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: Red Badger

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.


58 posted on 02/28/2017 7:51:36 AM PST by Leep (Cyclops Network News (CNN). The Most Trusted Source Of Fake News.)
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To: Red Badger

“The sandwich chain refuted the results of the DNA test in a released statement...”

Another reporter who doesn’t know the meaning of “refuted.”


59 posted on 02/28/2017 7:53:09 AM PST by Arthur McGowan (https://youtu.be/IYUYya6bPGw)
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To: Right Brother

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.


60 posted on 02/28/2017 7:54:25 AM PST by momincombatboots (Line up dems, Donald is going to save your district with a trillion nonexistent stimulus dollars.)
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