What’s In Fast Food Chicken?

[Mosby]

20. no way it's only 50% chicken

As of October 9, 2010, the ingredients within the United States are as follows: Chicken, water, salt, sodium phosphates. Battered and breaded with bleached wheat flour, water, wheat flour, modified food starch, salt, spices, wheat gluten, paprika, dextrose (sugar), yeast, garlic powder, rosemary, partially hydrogenated soybean oil and cottonseed oil with mono- and diglycerides, leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda, ammonium bicarbonate, monocalcium phosphate), natural flavor (plant source) with extractives of paprika. Fried in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with TBHQ and citric acid). Dimethylpolysiloxane is added as an antifoaming agent.[4] McDonald's ingredients can vary outside of the US.

As of October 9, 2010, dimethylpolysiloxane and Tert-Butylhydroquinone (TBHQ) are listed as ingredients in the McNuggets cooking process.[4] According to Lisa McComb, a media relations representative for McDonald's, dimethylpolysiloxane is used as a matter of safety to keep the frying oil from foaming. The chemical is a form of silicone also used in cosmetics and Silly Putty. A review of animal studies by the World Health Organization found no adverse health effects associated with dimethylpolysiloxane. TBHQ is a common preservative for vegetable oils, cereals, nuts, cookies, chips, and animal fats,[11] found in other foods like Girl Scout Cookies[12] and Quaker Chewy Granola Bars.[13] The U.S. Food and Drug Administration sets an upper limit of 0.02% (0.0002) of the oil or fat content in foods,[14] which like other foods, applies to the oil used in McNuggets. Effective use of TBHQ is 1 gram per 5000 grams of cooking oil (1 gram per 11 pounds of cooking oil).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_McNuggets

I really don't eat much at Mcdonalds anymore but I will eat at Arby's, Wendy's and Whataburger occasionally. I LOVE the Whataburger jr.

What irks me is these constant attacks on fast food all the while ignoring Chili's, Applebee's Red Robin, Mimi's etc. The vast majority of the food these chains sell is horrible, insanely high calorie, fat and sodium. Check this one item out, and consider that a whopper or 1/4 pounder has around 558 calories: A Chili's Jalapeno smokehouse burger has 1670 calories, 106 grams of fat and 4950 mg of sodium. That's almost three days worth of salt and these numbers are just for the burger.