As far back as I can remember, I loved those delicious little nuggets from McD's. I think that once I reached high school, I had an inkling that they probably weren't all that good for me...but man did I love them. Senior year, my best friend and I would pull through the golden arches almost daily for our off campus lunch and then head to one of our houses to stuff our faces. (No, we didn't have to return to school...we both had short schedules.)
I don't know exactly when it happened, but one day I just decided that I wasn't going to be eating McD's anymore. And I haven't since...it's been at least a year.
I've come across a few articles and blog posts about the "ingredients" of fast foods and have decided to do my own research... I think those little golden nuggets are a good place to start. This could get nasty...consider yourself warned.
What's really in McDonald's Chicken McNuggets:
Chicken, not just juicy, delicious breasts or thighs...but the whole chicken...the entire ground up chicken.
water, okay, that seems harmless...
salt, we all know what that is...
sodium phosphates. there are 4 different kinds, they are used as meat preservatives, and also as bowel prep for colonoscopies. yum.
Battered and breaded with: bleached wheat flour, ...bleached with various peroxides, chlorines, Azodicarbonamide (side note: Use of chlorine, bromates, and peroxides is not allowed in the European Union.)... fanfreakintastic.
water, ...again, probably harmless...
wheat flour, non- bleached this time...
modified food starch, genentically modified...awesome...
salt, ...because there isn't enough already....
spices, ...very vague...
wheat gluten, ...because there isn't enough wheat product already...
paprika, ...something real!...but it's probably been modified too...
dextrose (sugar), ...
yeast, ...another real ingredient!...
garlic powder, ...another real ingredient!...
rosemary, ...another real ingredient!...
partially hydrogenated soybean oil and cottonseed oil with mono- and diglycerides, ...and we're back to modified crap... and diglycerides are used to combine things like oil and water... oil and water don't like to combine...so don't make them!...
leavening (sodium acid pyrophosphate..."When added to the scalding water, it facilitates removal of hair and scurf in hog slaughter and feathers and scurf in poultry slaughter. In petroleum production, it can be used as a dispersant in oil well drilling muds."..., baking soda, ammonium bicarbonate... "is an irritant to the skin, eyes and respiratory system."...SO LET'S EAT IT!, monocalcium phosphate)...modified version of an essential nutrient, also used in fertilizers..., 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). ...vegetable oil is the worst oil to cook with. seriously.
Dimethylpolysiloxane is added as an antifoaming agent.[4] ...food shouldn't need an "antifoaming agent."
*McDonald's ingredients can vary outside of the US.*
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