McDonalds fights back.....What's REALLY In A McDonald's Chicken McNugget?

(WITH VID)What's REALLY In A McDonald's Chicken McNugget?

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Published on Wednesday, 05 February 2014 21:20

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Yummy McNuggets' real recipe is now known./sfgate.comYOU'VE heard the rumours, but now McDonald's has sought to debunk those nasty McNugget myths once and for all.

During this week's Super Bowl, McDonald's Canada aired a commercial to clarify that the brand does not use "pink goop", a rumour that has been going around since a picture of a mystery pink substance first started circulating on the web.

"We don't know what it is or where it came from, but it has nothing to do with our chicken McNuggets", said supply chain manager Nicoletta Stefou.

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Pink goo or pink slime also sometimes refers to "lean finely textured beef" - an unappetising and controversial concoction of inedible meat trimmings including cartilage and connective tissue. It is then doused with ammonium hydroxide to kill E. coli and other nasties.

News reports that claimed about 70 per cent of American ground beef contained the product led to one of the largest defamation cases in history.

So it's understandable McDonald's is keen to distance itself from the picture of the pink goop which looks more like the raw ingredients of musk sticks than chicken nuggets.

The McDonald's video shows the process from chicken to nugget in full (and excruciating) detail, outlining how the meat is made from ground chicken breast, breading (staple food made from flour), chicken skin, tempura and "some seasonings".

For the record, here is the official ingredient list straight from the horses (or chicken's) mouth:

White Meat Chicken McNuggets: Chicken breast, water, modified corn starch, salt, seasoning [yeast extract, salt, wheat starch, natural flavour (vegetable source), safflower oil, dextrose, citric acid, rosemary], natural extractives of rosemary, breaded with: water, wheat flour, yellow corn flour, modified corn starch, spices, salt, baking powder, dextrose, wheat starch, corn starch, modified hydrogenated soybean oil, cooked in 100 per cent vegetable oil [canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil (TBHQ), citric acid, dimethylpolysiloxane]. CONTAINS: WHEAT.

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