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  Chicken McNuggets - What's in the food? - McDonald's UK
All the chicken used is traceable right back to the farms on which the birds were raised and the highest standards are assured with rigorous quality checks and inspections.
No. McDonald's Chicken McNuggets are made from 100 percent chicken breast meat from poultry that are reared on farms that are required to meet McDonald's Agricultural Assurance standards.
The Chicken McNuggets were previously made from whole cuts of light meat, dark meat, and skin, in the natural proportions of a whole chicken.
www.makeupyourownmind.co.uk /questions/whats-in-the-food/chicken-mcnuggets/index2.html   (1846 words)

  
  Chicken McNuggets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chicken McNuggets, a type of chicken nugget, are one of the most popular trademarked items on the McDonald's menu.
McNuggets, as they are commonly known, are small pieces of formed chicken meat that have been battered and deep-fried.
The McNugget is a small piece of finely minced chicken meat held together with phosphate salts.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chicken_McNuggets   (560 words)

  
 Chicken McNuggets: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A chicken nugget is a piece of chicken, either whole or composed from a paste of finely minced meat, which is then coated in batter or breadcrumbs before...
A chicken is a type of domesticated bird which is usually raised as a type of poultry....
Chicken skin is included in the definition of white chicken meat; it is required to hold the formed chicken in shape.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/chicken_mcnuggets1.htm   (825 words)

  
 Gregory J   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Supermarket chicken is made up only of chicken, but the way future McNugget chickens are raised is not only cruel to the chickens, but dishonest to those who buy them.
No chicken lives long enough to be able to filter the drugs out naturally, so consumers unknowingly consume most of the drugs when they eat the bird.
Mechanically separated chicken is a good example of crafted meat, and is a common ingredient in the deli section.
www.cod.edu /people/faculty/bobtam/website/chicken.htm   (974 words)

  
 Chicken Consumption Continues Longrun Rise
Chicken consumption more than doubled between 1970 and 2004, from 27.4 pounds per person to 59.2 pounds (boneless, edible weight).
Chicken consumption has climbed since the 1940s, according to ERS’s per capita food availability data, a widely used proxy for actual food intake.
Of this amount, 60 percent is sold through fast-food chains, which have introduced new lines of chicken sandwiches, salads, wraps, and tenders to meet the rising demand for chicken.
www.ers.usda.gov /AmberWaves/April06/Findings/Chicken.htm   (338 words)

  
 Comments on 10070 | Ask MetaFilter   (Site not responding. Last check: )
To compare a gram of chicken to a gram of protein is to compare apples and oranges...so to speak.
Chicken McNuggets are made from the chicken's nuggets, of course.
Chicken meat, water, modified corn starch, salt, chicken broth powder (chicken broth, salt and natural chicken flavouring), seasoning [(vegetable oil (soybean and/or canola), extracts of rosemary, mono,di and triglycerides (from sunflower oil) and soy lecithin)].
ask.metafilter.com /mefi/10070   (979 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The new Chicken McNuggets are part of a continuing effort to encourage healthy active lifestyles while providing great taste and menu choices for consumers.
The new Chicken McNuggets are made with white meat and offer an improved nutrition profile.
In addition to providing new, great-tasting menu items, the new Chicken McNugget and its improved nutrition profile is also an example of McDonald’s ongoing commitment to provide additional choice and variety to customers interested in food and energy balance.
www.agr.state.tx.us /foodnutrition/database/article/2003/nov2003/na/McDonald's_Introduces_Chicken_McNuggets.doc   (274 words)

  
 Fool.com: Young Women: McDonald's Wants You [Motley Fool Take] July 28, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Yes, the fast food giant already sells chicken in the form of its Chicken McNuggets, but this new meal will be a different experience entirely.
Chicken Selects, which are similar to chicken fingers found at other restaurants, feature lightly breaded all-white meat and come with a variety of dipping sauces, just like McNuggets.
The Chicken Selects may not be particularly unique, but they could be part of a larger concerted effort to appeal to an important customer segment.
fool.com /news/mft/2004/mft04072807.htm?logvisit=y&...&bounce=y   (348 words)

  
 McDonald's adds chicken strips at U.S. eateries   (Site not responding. Last check: )
But the Oak Brook-based chain said they are larger than Chicken McNuggets and made from more premium chicken breast meat, targeting an older age group - age 18 to 34 - than the children and young adults who comprise the majority of McNuggets eaters.
Those chicken "nuggets" are simply peices ohicken that were still left on the carcass stripped off and thrown into a coagulating jelly made from pigs feet.
I understand that just before the chickens are "terminated" the workers throw them against the wall and stomp on them, thus making the meat more tender and aiding in the deboning process.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1179783/posts   (1026 words)

  
 McNuggets   (Site not responding. Last check: )
McDonalds sells Chicken McNuggets in boxes of 6, 9, or 20.
Obviously one could purchase exactly 15 McNuggets by buying a box of 6 and a box of 9.
What if the McNuggets were available in boxes of 7, 11, and 17?
jwilson.coe.uga.edu /emt725/McNuggets/McNuggets.html   (76 words)

  
 Chicken McNuggets - How do you make... - McDonald's UK
The McNuggets are supplied to the restaurants frozen, and then cooked from frozen in a new non-hydrogenated blend of sunflower and rapeseed oil.
The chicken meat is also traceable right back to the farms on which the birds were raised and the standards and procedures strictly monitored.
Chicken McNuggets are only made of carefully deboned chicken breast meat which is naturally white when cooked.
www.makeupyourownmind.co.uk /questions/how-do-you-make/chicken-mcnuggets   (1184 words)

  
 Press Releases - KFC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
As part of the activities surrounding Popcorn Chicken "Free Day," KFC is taking out a full-page color advertisement in USA Today on June 20 inviting consumers to go taste the difference for themselves.
Information regarding the Popcorn Chicken give-away will also be seen in conjunction with the popular national television advertisements, beginning Saturday, June 15, and radio advertisements, beginning Tuesday, June 18, featuring Jason Alexander and Barry Bonds currently on the air.
Popcorn Chicken is prepared with all-white breast meat, marinated for juicy bold flavor on the inside and lightly breaded so it's crunchy on the outside.
www.kfc.com /about/pr/061802.htm   (526 words)

  
 Fool.com: Scientists Play Chicken [Motley Fool Take] December 10, 2004
Chickens and mammals have a similar number of genes; it's just that the chicken has less repetitive, superfluous DNA than do mammals.
The chicken joins a growing list of organisms that have had their genome sequenced: dogs, mice and rats, fruit flies, roundworms, baker's yeast, puffer fish, even the E. coli bacterium.
The chicken is the first bird to have its genome decoded, thus giving scientists a look into the primordial soup of the dinosaur.
www.fool.com /News/mft/2004/mft04121012.htm   (472 words)

  
 McDonald's® USA Gives Moms Unprecedented Access to Learn How Chicken McNuggets® Are Made : Real Moms go from ...
The Moms were granted unprecedented access to learn how their families’ favorite chicken menu items are made, including Chicken McNuggets and the new Southern Style Chicken Biscuit and Sandwich.
Chicken McNuggets, for example, are sampled every hour for quality and safety evaluations.
McDonald's works closely with all of its chicken suppliers to ensure stringent food quality and safety standards are followed to deliver high-quality chicken products in our restaurants, everyday.
emediawire.com /releases/chicken/quality/prweb1021384.htm   (1083 words)

  
 One vital nugget of information: product may not contain chicken - National - www.smh.com.au
A large Australian chicken processor describes a nugget as a mouthful of batter, water, soybean (sometimes passing as chicken), skin, fat and - entirely dependent on how much you've paid - chicken meat particles.
chicken is ground to five-millimetre particles, then skin and soybean added with water to make an emulsion.
Soybean is also often used as a chicken substitute, but not by Canon, he says.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/03/22/1079939581660.html   (467 words)

  
 SlickDeals.net Forums - 50 Piece Chicken McNuggets $7.99 @ McD's on Sat & Sun - Page 2
Boneless chicken breast, water, modified cornstarch, salt, chicken flavor (yeast extract, salt, wheat starch, natural flavoring (animal source), safflower oil, dextrose, citric acid, rosemary), sodium phosphates, seasoning (natural extractives of rosemary, canola and/or soybean oil, mono-and diglycerides, and soy lecithin).
Each McNugget is 42 calories of which 22 of those are from fat.
Each Chicken Fry is 43 calories of which 23 of those are from fat.
forums.slickdeals.net /showthread.php?t=194037&page=2   (689 words)

  
 Chicken McNuggets » Fast Food Critic | Fast Food Reviews, News, Prices and Nutrition Information.
McDonald’s recently gave the “Moms’ Quality Correspondents” access to one of their poultry facilities to learn how Chicken McNuggets are made, so they can give their children the answer to that often puzzling question.
In addition to the McNuggets, they apparently have a whole series of tours to various McDonald’s facilities arranged, and there will be videos, interviews and all kinds of good McDonald’s coverage to follow.
The 2004 documentary “Super Size Me” alleged that McNuggets were, at one point in time, made from sick and/or old chickens unable to lay eggs, and that they also included chemicals such as tertiary butylhydroquinone (phenolic antioxidant), polydimethylsiloxane (anti-foaming agent), and other ingredients not used by a typical home cook.
fastfoodcritic.com /tag/chicken-mcnuggets   (1064 words)

  
 McNuggets » Fast Food Critic | Fast Food Reviews, News, Prices and Nutrition Information.
Chicken McNuggets have been blamed for the ills of the world.
Chicken McNuggets from McDonald’s are one of the original, legendary fast food icons.
The trip down McNuggets memory lane was fun, but when I’m eating at McDonald’s the higher quality, better tasting and more natural Chicken Selects will be my choice.
fastfoodcritic.com /tag/mcnuggets   (1064 words)

  
 McDonald's® USA Gives Moms Unprecedented Access to Learn How Chicken McNuggets® Are Made : Real Moms go from ...
Before the tour, I had been told that McDonald's Chicken McNuggets are made with all white meat but I wanted to learn more about the entire production process to feel better about the food I'm feeding my family.
The Moms then visited a broiler farm to witness how the chickens are cared for, fed and nurtured until fully grown.
It was reassuring to see the quality of the meat they use for Chicken McNuggets.
www.prweb.com /releases/chicken/quality/prweb1021384.htm   (1079 words)

  
 What would you do with 50 chicken nuggets? - Eyes on Final Fantasy Forums
Apparently this weekend they are having a big special on chicken nuggets: $7.99 for 50 of them.
Build my own Chicken McNugget fort, then realize there isn't enough McNuggets to make a fort for fat ol' me because I spent all my time eating Chicken Mcnuggets rather than excercising.
My first night in the army there was this guy snoring as if he was chopping up a friggen car with a chainsaw and I was desperate since there was only 4 hours till I had to wake up.
forums.eyesonff.com /showthread.php?t=78632   (917 words)

  
 Chicken Conference Description
We will be bringing together scholars, agronomists, public intellectuals, chicken growers, workers, industry representatives, and activists from the labor, farm, animal welfare, environmental, and public health movements, whose work has helped to define and change what we know about chickens and their production and consumption.
From the early use of Chanticleer in Chaucer, to images of the Little Red Hen in modern children’s literature, the use of chickens to represent motifs from domesticity to wildness (the fighting cock) is widespread.
The recent example in Russia of a ban on U.S. chicken imports due to the perceived ‘toxicity’ of antibiotics and chemicals in the broilers imported from the U.S. may be an indicator of sentiment more wide spread and represented an unexpected consequence of globalization for the poultry industry.
www.yale.edu /agrarianstudies/chicken/description.html   (1250 words)

  
 Moms Tour a McDonald's U.S. Poultry Facility - Restaurant News - QSR Magazine
The same white meat is used in all McDonald's premium chicken menu items including premium chicken salads and sandwiches as well as snack wraps.
To ensure consistent quality, all McDonald's chicken products undergo continuous sensory testing, a comprehensive quality monitoring process that ensures McDonald's high standards are being achieved throughout the manufacturing process.
Each of the moms had an opportunity to conduct her own sensory testing of the Chicken McNuggets, including the best part of the evaluation--tasting.
www.qsrmagazine.com /articles/news/story.phtml?id=6731   (514 words)

  
 Ughhhhh!
Warm, bite-sized and sort-of white, they are the favored fast food of millions of children who believe they are eating chicken.
Red Rooster nuggets are 56 per cent "formed" chicken, but Tana says the ingredients are "not different to what any housewife or chef would use.
Chief executive Richard Pace says chicken is ground to five-millimeter particles, then skin and soybean added with water to make an emulsion.
perdurabo10.tripod.com /id721.html   (441 words)

  
 News
Looking to emulate the success of Chicken McNuggets and fried mozzarella sticks, the group is hoping to inject some red meat into the American snack food diet with cheeseburger fries.
In 2001, Americans ate only 66.2 pounds of beef per capita, which was eclipsed by chicken at 75.6 pounds.
That reversal took place in part because of the popularity of McDonald's Chicken McNuggets, which were introduced in 1983, altering the public's perception of chicken by turning it into a quick and convenient food.
www.choiceusa.net /news_article_Fries.htm   (1093 words)

  
 McDonald's(R) USA Gives Moms Unprecedented Access to Learn How Chicken McNuggets(R) Are Made
Each of the Moms had an opportunity to conduct their own sensory testing of the Chicken McNuggets, including the best part of the evaluation -- tasting.
It was reassuring to see the quality of the meat they use for Chicken McNuggets." The Moms who participated in the trip will post videos, photos and journal entries chronicling their experience on http://www.mcdonaldsmoms.com.
In 2008 their trips include a McDonald's chicken supplier, a visit to a Ronald McDonald House(R), and a visit to a McDonald's potato supplier to learn about McDonald's World Famous French Fries(R).
prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-12-2008/0004831541&EDATE=   (784 words)

  
 You can do anything... with mustard sauce   (Site not responding. Last check: )
With strong conviction, I can tell you that eating 40 Chicken McNuggets in a single sitting is not as hard as it seems.
My adventure with McNuggets started with a phone conversation when a friend mentioned he had recently purchased a 20-piece Chicken McNugget meal, and after eating them, had "felt wrong."
McNuggets are kind of gross and probably, technically, aren't even chicken.
orion.csuchico.edu /Pages/vol40issue10/o.2.mustard.html   (661 words)

  
 Nation's Restaurant News: Revised BK tenders ads take swipe at McNuggets - Burger King's Chicken Tender
Television ads for Burger King's all-white-meat Chicken Tenders--pulled last April because of a purported chicken supply shortage-- are back on the network airwaves.
In a recycled version of its estimated $30 million Chicken Tenders campaign, played to the theme of singer Marvin Gaye's "Ain't nothing like the real thing,' Burger King has altered the copy in the commercials in order to take a direct swipe at McDonald's Chicken McNuggets.
The clear message of the new 30-second spot is that Chicken McNuggets are made from only the "Best Cuts' of chicken and can hold their own against the growing array of all-white-meat chicken finger foods that are flooding the marketplace.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3190/is_v20/ai_4353787   (396 words)

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