Chicken Nugget Pink

Processed meats chicken nuggets especially get a bad rap for their manufacturing process.

Chicken nugget pink.

We haven t even talked about what you ll find in. You may think it s pink slime but the truth wil. The internet is infested with countless horror stories surrounding how the drive thru staple is made most notably claims of pink slime and animal bones usurping the ingredient list. She then takes us on a tour of the entire chicken mcnugget process showing in blunt detail how breasts are taken from whole chickens blended seasoned and formed into nuggets.

To get down to the bottom of what s really in your chicken nuggets we did some digging to demystify these urban myths. Former mythbusters host grant imahara visits tyson food processing plant to investigate what mcdonald s chicken mcnuggets are actually made from. Don t forget to ask for extra dipping sauce. Made from pink goo.

Casey owens associate professor in the department of food science and member of the center of excellence for poultry science at the university of arkansas for some clarification she maintains that this is not the process used to make nuggets. Owens has to say about chicken nuggets and mechanically separated meat in an interview with best food facts. There is no pink slime in chicken nuggets dr. Poultry beaks and feet.

It s factory farmed chicken not free range chicken. After an inquiry regarding pink slime or mechanically separated chicken in chicken nuggets we asked dr. Casey owens associate professor in the department of food science and member of the center of excellence for poultry science at the university of arkansas. The chicken is mechanically separated and de.

So it s the kind of chicken that s typically treated with vaccines and hormones while being fed conventional feed products that are medicated with pharmaceuticals and grown with pesticides. Have you ever seen one of those dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets and wondered how do they do that. Read more of what dr. You ve probably seen the videos and photographs that went viral a few years back like the one above illustrating the pink slime that was said to be used in mcdonald s burgers and chicken mcnuggets.

We sent cameras around the globe to capture behind the scenes footage of how chicken nuggets are really made.