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    What Chicken Nuggets Are Really Made Of

    Photo credit: Gizmodo.com

    Those who like to know what's in their food may be in for a big surprise if they look behind the scenes in production facilities making chicken nuggets (or bologna or hot dogs). What they will find when seeking the "chicken" in their nuggets is the pink soft-serve-like paste above, according to Gizmodo.com.

    The image above (courtesy of Gizmodo.com) features mechanically separated chicken, or chicken and chicken bones that have been mechanically separated and churned into goop. Hardly the "white meat" we imagine, it can also contain bacteria, so after the process showcased above, ammonia may be added to kill the bacteria, which, as you might imagine, changes the taste of the "meat" considerably. So, once the paste is formed into familiar shapes, it is dyed and artificially flavored to taste like chicken, according to Daniel Fletcher, a food scientist at University of Connecticut.

    We're curious: Does knowing how these foods are created change your opinion of them?

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    99 comments

    • Dail  •  Chatsworth, California  •  2 months ago
      actaully, all this is true. McDonalds could care less about your diet and obesity. the real story behind it is that the sole purpose of mcdonalds is to make money of obese children. and for all those of you who eat it because it "tastes good" then somethings wrong with you because even if your skinny and eat there its still VERY bad for your body...unless of coarse you want cancer.
    • Rebekah  •  1 year 7 months ago
      Wait, why is it supposedly soaked in ammonia? Wouldn't just cooking it kill the bacteria? Otherwise, it's just ground meat.
    • Michel  •  1 year 7 months ago
      I read the package first, if it has 75% or more of chicken breast then I'll eat it. I suppose we are talking about Mc......'s nuggets ? I wouldn't touch them with a ten foot pole, the same goes for the rest of their products.
      • max power 3 months ago
        What you dont eat I will. Love mcdonalds!
    • WilliamM  •  1 year 7 months ago
      Usually with French fries and a Coke. ;)
    • Rainy  •  1 year 7 months ago
      Are you kidding me??? Is this even safe or legal? WTH?
    • Riyadh  •  1 year 7 months ago
      i'd better prepare it in house.but can't leave it
    • Van  •  1 year 7 months ago
      They are good, you all know they are.
      • A Yahoo! User 8 days ago
        no! there horrible, half the time the people serving the food dont know this is in it
    • Jeffrey  •  1 year 7 months ago
      Article debunked at Snopes dot com as a mix of true and false info.
    • nov10child  •  1 year 7 months ago
      This is a lie! McDonald's nuggets are white meat chicken and are one whole piece not extruded crap! Now hot dogs and bologna could be. I always get beef hot dogs and bologna. Never eat potted meat or vienna sausage for same reasons.
      • A Yahoo! User 8 days ago
        Well lets all face the truth, I,ve seen this myself
    • Angel  •  1 year 7 months ago
      I stopped eating nuggets long ago from McDonald's, simply because I tried them and didn't like the taste of them.
    • Ann-Marie  •  1 year 7 months ago
      why would this make me stop eating them? they taste good and i've been eating them since i was a kid and have never gotten sick. so clearly they're not dangerous. I never expected them to be made of anything else really. Does anyone?
    • topguy10  •  1 year 7 months ago
      JEFFREY: Similar info was in the movie "Super Size Me" so if it's anywhere online and been debunked no doubt McCa-ca's had something to do with that.

      For anyone else, if you want to eat that garbage, knock yourself out, but don't complain about how you get sick all the time, have no energy or are fat. Even if it's not happening now, it will eventually.
    • YumYum  •  1 year 7 months ago
      When I looked at the picture I thought it was some kind of CANDY!! That is NOT MEAT. Holy crap!
      If this is what the consumers eat, they will continue to make this PASTE of waste~ GROSS!
    • Beverly  •  1 year 7 months ago
      that's just nasty!
    • Lolamac  •  1 year 7 months ago
      Ya...gross. Let's take chicken beat it all to hell then change the flavor and then put some fake chicken flavor in it and serve it up.

      No thanks, I'll buy a chicken myself and cut it up and batter/bread it and bake it myself.
    • Karen S  •  1 year 7 months ago
      Really Ann-Marie? You always expected them to be made of an entire chicken, bones, waste, and all, ground to a paste and then bathed in ammonia? That's what everyone has expected chicken nuggets are made of?
    • Robyn  •  1 year 7 months ago
      i just dont like the ammonia idea...ewww
    • AMBER C  •  1 year 7 months ago
      I feel pretty good about not giving this to my step-son. The last time he ate nuggets he threw up and now voluntarily won't touch them.
    • Torgeon  •  1 year 7 months ago
      And to all the vegetarians out there...guess what they spray on your bunny food? Yep, that's right...cow poo. LOL
    • Nancy  •  1 year 7 months ago
      I love me some chicken nuggets!

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